I would love to know more about this this powerful Japanese maple, especially the artist's name. I recognize the logo in the corner, but there are no credits with the photo. Thanks to Michael Bonsai we now know this tree is from the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum collection.
NOTE: Since we posted this Oscar from Bonsai Empire has gotten in touch and very graciously thanked us for pointing out the problems. He came up with a solution to attribution and is working on other solutions. My thanks to Oscar and friends. I look forward to meeting you at the Artisans Cup.
Both photos shown in this post are from Bonsai Empire’s online gallery. There’s a lot to like about Bonsai Empire and we’ve shown photos borrowed from them over the years. Still, there are a couple things they do that might provoke questions.
Attribution. Bonsai Empire does attribute the bonsai artists on facebook but I wonder why they don’t bother to attribute on their online gallery. It would be easy for them and save a lot of trouble for those of us who would like to know who the artists are.*
Logo placement. Bonsai Empire puts their logo on photos that do not belong to them. As far as I know, they are the only ones in our bonsai community who do this. This strikes me as strange at best and I have to wonder how they justify this practice.
This Japanese maple belongs to Walter Pall. This and other photos of this famous tree have appeared in many places including Walter's website. The question is; what is Bonsai Empire's logo doing on the photo?
* In their online gallery Bonsai Empire states the following: “For the photocredits, check the Bonsai of the Day albums at our Facebook Page!” I tried this with both photos shown here, but gave up after five minutes of scrolling down through both their feed and photo galleries.
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More details about the japanese maple called Koryo owned by the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum in Saitama can be found here http://www.bonsai-art-museum.jp/en/collection/a-087/
Thanks Wayne for pointing us to this; we immediately added a temporary solution to add attribution to the photos (and will update the gallery soon to improve it further).