Oct 15 2012

Saturday’s Workshop In Photos

Only getting around to uploading the weekends Photos.

This Gallery is from the Saturday workshop with Peter Warren and shows the action as well as many of the trees before during and after. Participants were a mixture of beginners and hardcore members with a variety of trees both raw and established. If I had time I’d add some text explaining what’s going on but to be honest I’m absolutely shattered!!

I think we can safety say that the weekend was a success and Peter is most definitely worth having along for a workshop.

Oct 14 2012

PW Day 3

All set and ready to go on day 3 of Peter’s visit. Photos later .

Oct 13 2012

PW Day 2 in Full Flow

Workshop under way on day two of the Peter Warren Weekend.

Oct 13 2012

PW Day One

Peter Warren first day In Photos….

A visits to Phil’s bonsai, or are they Frankies?! 🙂

And then some snaps of the meeting. 30+ members turned up for what was a great night. Some great shots of Peter break dancing. 😆 Roll on the Workshops.

Oct 12 2012

House Guest

Peter Warren arrives in Northern Ireland for the first time today, and I have the pleasure of having him as a house guest until Monday.

He’ll be doing a talk/tree critique at the club tonight for the members and then my garage will be put to full use on Saturday and Sunday with workshops. The camera will be out as usual and so will the camcorder. I’m sure he will be on his best behaviour 😉

I’ll endeavour to keep the blog up-to-date with the goings on, but as you can imagine, it’ll be a busy few days for me to. As I know my wife will read this, I just want to thank her for putting up with all these hairy-arsed bonsai folk appearing in the house, not you Peter, I’m sure yours is peachy 😆

Peter working hard. hope he’s not expecting material like that here!!

Oct 11 2012

Beach Bums

A few shots from my Sunday walk. As you can see, the star of the show was my dog Smudge 🙂

View Point

Old Crow

Abandoned castles

Sails ahoy!

Acrobat!

Wana Dance?

UFO!

Moon Walk

Two hours later…

Oct 10 2012

Merlin’s Videos

If you haven’t stumbled across merlin’s youtube channel, it’s worth a look. Here is his latest offering.

Oct 9 2012

Kanagawa Union Bonsai Exhibition Individual Trees

For those looking for a closer look at some of the trees and accents in yesterday’s post about the Kanagawa Exhibition, here you go 🙂

Oct 8 2012

Kanagawa Union Bonsai Exhibition – Japan

I have been admiring the shohin displays on one of the Japanese Blogs that I follow. I have been allowed to share these with you here. Taken at the Kanagawa Union Bonsai Exhibition. This is an amateur exhibition with trees from several clubs in the Kanagawa area.

Oct 7 2012

Dutch Club Exhibition Photos

Harry, my Dutch friend has shared some more photos with me.

These where taken at a club exhibition yesterday. It’s a relatively new club who are exhibiting their trees in order to attract some new members.

The group was initiated and is still facilitated by Johan van Frankenhuyzen, a bonsai-enthusiast from their local garden centre. Website . I’m told that he is the driving force behind the hobby group.

Bruno Wijman is the lead in their workshops through the world of bonsai art and techniques. This is his website.

Here are a few photos from the exhibition. If I get any links for more photos, I’ll update the post.