Flat Top Stile...

jun escreveu:

Rob Kempinski escreveu:

Robert Steven escreveu: flat-top pine in China. Only with the "subjective touch", you can depict the correct nuance and convey a clear message through bonsai design. Simply resemble the style without proper setting can suggest wrong idea.

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Thanks for the photo of the flat top pine. Put that in a pot and it is similar to Amy Liang's which launched this discussion.

YUP!
like I said in that thread too, The Amy Liang's bonsai was designed in a particular way like that it was inspired by trees growing near or in a cliff, with primary branches moving away from the shadows of the cliff, then it has a natural tendency to form a "flat top" to maximize sun exposure...and it is not a windswept.

Trees are not confined to the basic forms of bonsai that most people tried to desperately follows.


regards,
jun



Hey FERDIE if you managed to see this, this is one of the pointers I am trying to tell you. Try to look back at the discussion in "Brevard Show.." and then this one, You'll get something out of it. Do not limit yourself in the confines of "basic" bonsai principles. Study natural trees first.
..I think somebody said-" study first what makes a good bonsai a good bonsai" ,but forgot to tell what a good bonsai is- Bonsai is a desperate man's attempt to put nature in a pot and to control nature in a way for his own selfish satisfaction . and if by logic, copied things are good if it resembles what or where it was copied from (definitely not from Japan alone, where trees there where copied from trees of Japan).