10 Days Later..

I took a few photos of the collected trees in the Poly Tunnel and compared them to the same shots from 10 days ago when they were placed in the tunnel. A nice shade of green appearing.

14th March

24th March

Amazing Photography

Photobotos.com follows this blog and being a generally nosey chap I was returning the favour and noticed this stunning photo of a Pine on Loch Lomand.

I then popped over to the photographers website and spent a very nice 30 minutes browsing through some excellent photos of the Scottish Landscape, many of them featuring trees. Result 🙂

To visit Karl William’s website click below.

Missed it!

When I was busy last week I missed this maple opening and now it has extended further than I had wanted! Last year this tree was weak after years of neglect from its previous owner. This year seems to show signs of renewed vigour. It was bought as part of a mercy mission and has a way to go but I think it has enough character to be an interesting tree. Older posts about this tree HERE and HERE.

Trident Update

My Root Over Rock Trident Maple is pushing hard after it’s repot.

My other Trident, not repotted this year is also at a similar stage.

Yesterdays Walk under Blue Sky

Some may think it strange to mention a blue sky. but it’s a real rarity here! I think it’s now safe to say that Spring has arrived. Plenty of flowers to share. Here’s the usual offering of photos to entice you to the Ards Peninsula.

Happy St Patrick’s Day

Happy St Paddy’s Day Folks

Beautiful sunny day here, snapped a few of the flowers in my Dad’s garden.

Gallery

Kokufu 2012 Photos

This gallery contains 28 photos.

I’m delighted to be able to share these photos from Kokufu 2012 with you all here on the blog. Owen Reich has kindly offered the use of his photos taken in Japan here on the blog. Owen is currently apprenticing at Mr. Fujikawa’s … Continue reading

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360 Photos

I love the way 360 flash images can be made of our trees allowing you to spin the tree around to appreciate it from every side.

Then Hugh from the club sent me a link to these 360 images that are just spectacular! Makes you wonder where technology will take us next.

Click on the images below to view. Some stunning Autumn colour in the first one and the second one makes you want to run and get your yamadori spade 🙂

Bonsai Backdrop

With all this running around photographing club members trees, I’m on the look out for a portable backdrop that will work for big and small bonsai. I saw one of these being used recently and thought it was ideal. The blue side anyway. You can get different colours. Problem is the price. As usual they cost at least double what you pay for them in the USA.

Video for it in use. VIDEO