Boon Manakitivipart. Western juniper debut with Jalaluddin Din.
Bonsai Boon
All the photos shown here were posted on facebook by Boon Manakitivipart. Boon is a well-known American bonsai artist and influential bonsai teacher. You can find more about Boon here.
Shadows and light
I like these photos. Not only are the bonsai quite intriguing, but the photos offer something you don’t see that often; bonsai photography with an artistic flair. The one possible downside is that the play of shadow and light sometimes makes it a little harder to see some of the details on the trees. On balance though, I think it’s worth it.
Sierra juniper. Boon Manakitivipart with Jalaluddin Din. Western juniper and Sierra juniper are sub-species of Juniperus occidentalis.
Boon Manakitivipart, Ume (Flowering apricot).
Stepping back a bit.
Boon Manakitivipart. Taiwan juniper with Jalaluddin Din.
Boon Manakitivipart. Members’ choice award – large conifer with Jalaluddin Din (I guess the ‘large conifer’ is in reference to the award, as the tree is clearly a juniper of some sort).
Well darn, now I have to go back and search through my old rejects!
Seriously, very nice photography and, of course, the bonsai … they speak for themselves.
When I look at these photo’s I feel such a deep sense of balance & peace. A sense of peacefulness comes over me. I’m transported to a world of peace & simplicity. They have wabi, sabi. Thanks for taking such beautiful, artistic pictures. Your bonsai have a character and presence & you convey that so artistically with your photography.
To me when I look at the Western Juniper & the Sierra Juniper, I feel like I do when I am in the presence of an old olive tree, of great age, and stature, yet small, but commanding character & respect.
Do you see the old wizard/ samurai face on the last Juniper? Great tree.
Hi Mary,
Ha! Worth a look eh?
Thanks Paul. Yes, peace, simplicity, wabi sabi. Not bad.
Hi ChrisA,
Not sure I see the face. Lots of detail and character though, so no doubt a face in there somewhere.
OK, I’ll be the one to risk sounding ignorant (there has got to be more of us that’s curious), what is a “jalalludin din”?? Other than that, I would love to get a big coffee table book with just artsy bonsai photo’s such as these. I hope to get in on Boon’s intensives some day. People I have talked to that have done them say they are very worth it.
Wayne,
Boon wow! Wayne the face looks like a wizard/Viking(Norsemen) and it’s at the base of the two jin that radiate off of the top of the shari. Love the way the wood is worked. Jeker probably would have burned and darkened the wood a little, but the carving is superb. Is Jalaluddin someone’s
name?
Junipers are conifers.
The last juniper pictured graces the cover of the Mar/Apr edition of Golden Statements, the magazine of the Golden State Bonsai Federation, a federation of California bonsai clubs. The magazine’s caption states:
BIB Winter Show 2011 (Bay Island Bonsai is Boon’s group)
Species: Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis var occidentalis), collected from Idaho in 2004. Purchased from Boon Manakitivipart in 2005. First styled in 2006 by Michael Hagedorn. Subsequent stylings by Boon, Daisku Nomoto, Akio Kondo. First shown in 2009. Shown here in an antique Chinese pot.
Jalaluddin Din is a Facebook friend of Boon’s.