Part of our trip to Willowbog wasn’t about bonsai, but the friendship and craic [fun] we had during the weekend. What better way to capture this than to have a video as a reminder. Not original in bonsai circles I know with others such as Andrew Sellman and Sebastijan Sandev already covering this. But this is for me and anyone else who was there to help relive good times…
Apologies to any German viewers, You are the only country that copyright has blocked viewing due to the music.
One of my favourite blogs Centro Bonsai Tenerife had some photos of the awards from this years Kokufu Ten
And this Japanese blog has some interesting shots from the green club.
Part 4 is now available to view on Youtube. For ease of use, I have added all 4 parts here.
Be sure to read the credits, my thanks to those listed there, but also to everyone who attended the workshop that made it such a good day. My bill for pushing you out of the snow is in the post 🙂
Hope you all enjoyed the craic in part one, or should that be CRACK!
Here’s part 2, part 3 tonight when I get home from work.
If you are not currently following Peter Warren’s blog posts from the Green club and Kokufu Ten, then you should be.
with his usual pithy comments he has been showing us some interesting bonsai both in the exhibition and also on the sales tables at the club.
Here is a selection of the photos he been posting.
I sat down yesterday morning to try and edit the demo day video with Ryan at Willowbog into something shorter without missing out the interesting bits. That proved to be a hard task! Ryan keeps up the commentary, questions, and stories pretty much the whole way thorough! I have therefore got Four parts to share with you totalling 3 1/2 hours of footage! I’ll share as I get them uploaded.
This is a lot of viewing and I know that many will not want to be bothered wading through it, however, others have asked to see the complete session. Down the line I might upload some of the individual learning moments or pearls of wisdom given by Ryan.
I had a nightmare with the video camera and was missing the first few hours of footage but thankfully Phil the fingers had it recorded on our backup/closeup camera and I have edited both together.
On our trip over to Willowbog and also on our way back we popped into Mike’s place for a look around his trees. Mike is an old mate from bonsai days past and after a break from the hobby for a few years, he jumped back in with both feet.
You’ll have seen Mike in the photos of the Sunday workshop. Hard to miss, a long haired biker covered in tattoos. Here’s some of the photos I snapped on the way out and the way home.
2 of 2. Now making a start on editing the demo footage. Not easy as Ryan keeps the information flow going throughout!
You will have seen Ryan talking about Pines elsewhere on Youtube but I think this one is slightly more detailed and well worth a watch.
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