Boon Manakitivipart takes a good look at an impressive wild specimen just before he digs it up (just kidding). From Boon’s new website. This shot gives you an idea of the scope and size of one of nature’s more impressive trees. I haven’t talked to Boon, so I don’t know the what or where, but my best guess is a juniper somewhere in the Sierra Nevadas. Maybe someone out there can set me straight.
This Rough bark shore juniper is by Boon Manakitipivart. It originally appeared in Bonsai Today issue 108. Though it certainly has a rugged, natural feel, does it also have some features (aside from the pot) that are more characteristic of bonsai than of trees growing in the wild? Is there a clear distinction? Back two or three years ago, I was hearing and reading a lot about naturalistic bonsai versus more abstract bonsai. Though I’m not sure that the difference is always that obvious, or that there are only two categories when it come to this discussion, I do get … Continue reading The Great Debate: Naturalistic vs Abstract?
Here’s a photo of Boon Manakitivipart with the (no longer a mystery) Mystery Tree from his website Bonsai Boon. If you look at the original post (5/5/09) the contest was: the first person who posts the name of the person who took the photo and where it is on the internet, wins a $25.00 gift certificate to Stone Lantern’s web store. What I didn’t anticipate was that someone would tell me where it was on the internet and someone else would tell me who took the photo.