Some inspiration...windswept

[Cadillactaste]

Just googling images of windswept in nature...can be quite amazing. I have always loved the whimsical look of windswept.

 

[GrimLore]

Google Images for Divi Divi Tree, amazing to see in person when I was Aruba for two weeks.

Grimmy

 

[Poink88]

A good article
http://bonsaibark.com/2011/05/16/windswept-bonsai-critique/

...and here's a few pics.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Dario...that link was quite informative...some of the photos you shared...I believe are in my book on Penjing.

 

[jk_lewis]

I've done two windswept trees. One, a trident maple raft, is fairly successful. The other, a flowering quince, is less so -- again because it IS a flowering tree and windswept is unnatural for them (IMO).

 

[Cadillactaste]

I've done two windswept trees. One, a trident maple raft, is fairly successful. The other, a flowering quince, is less so -- again because it IS a flowering tree and windswept is unnatural for them (IMO).

I seen your trident in my google image search! Your quince didn't show up. I would have remembered that. Still graceful and pretty. With close flowers and all.

Where as my flowers hang more...delicately from a stem off the branch. Which I can see when in bloom wouldn't pull it off very well at all...with them hanging down instead of wind tossed.

 

[Cadillactaste]

An amazing trident maple I forgot to add.