Ulmus procera..first wiring.

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Ulmus procera..first wiring.

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I have had this Elm for a long time and have only pruned it when it got out of hand. I have a lot of English elms waiting for styling and i could never create a style for this in my head so it sat. I decided to be radical with it and this is the result. Gotta admit..it is out there.
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"out there" that's one way of putting it :lol: It reminds me of an eerie tree from the hobit or something. I had to look at it a couple of times but I like it. It is different. Looks like it has had a tough time which I hope is what you were aiming for. Will be good to see it in leaf.

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If you look at the whole tree in detail, it's very haunting IMO :tu:
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Works for me. The wind-swept style suggests battering conditions, and the trunk gives that same feeling. It will be interesting to see it when it leafs out - you may lose the windswept look in the masses of foliage. Maybe you'll have a lush tree in summer, and a windswept tree in winter.

I'd go for front two. Please keep posting as it matures.

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Love the style suits tree very well ...makes it look even older and wiser and chunkier
As you know this tree caught my eye first time I saw it .
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SPECTACULAR

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Yep. Badass. :clap:
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Hi Bodhi , mate the winds blowing in the wrong direction , can you turn it around :reading: . I have always admired wind swept and this one does it for me , being a lefty i would have wired it in the opposite direction :whistle: . I too have a few Various elms and some would make for nice wind swept ,showed one off the other day to Fiveoffive , a slanting windswept Ulmus Glabra just need the finer foliage , its got the branches and i need the time to do the hard yards . Nicely created indeed .

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A great piece to work with Bodhi !!! Really like what you have done with it !!! cool wood work too !!! :tu: :tu: :tu:
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Nice work Bodhi!
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As a winter image tree, I like it.

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kidsandall wrote: Looks like it has had a tough time which I hope is what you were aiming for. Will be good to see it in leaf.
Yep Josh, aiming for a battered tree look. The tree is completely hollow and the branches flow in that direction.
FatMingsBonsai wrote:If you look at the whole tree in detail, it's very haunting IMO
I never thought about that FMG,but it does have that appearance.
GavinG wrote:I'd go for front two. Please keep posting as it matures.

Gavin
Thanks Gavin, as always good input, and i will lean towards that front to. A pot will be difficult.
Meagi wrote:As you know this tree caught my eye first time I saw it .
Thanks for helping me strip it Meagi. It kicked my butt to finally do something with this tree.
Nathan wrote:SPECTACULAR
Qitianlong wrote:Yep. Badass. :clap:
Thanks Gentlemen, a few years will change this tree into something special i think.
alpineart wrote:being a lefty i would have wired it in the opposite direction
Me to Alps and i did, but when i spun it around to see what it looked like from the back i realised i had been working on the wrong front.
anttal63 wrote:A great piece to work with Bodhi !!! Really like what you have done with it !!! cool wood work too !!
Yep thanks Ant, between us we will lots of EE's for future gen's.
Shannon wrote:Nice work Bodhi!
Thanks mate.
Mojo Moyogi wrote:As a winter image tree, I like it.
I agree Moj, leaves will spoil the image and i think heaps of ramification and display it naked. :tu:
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:worship: I was looking for a new desktop background, guess I have found what I was looking for :tu:
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Trent McKenzie wrote::worship: I was looking for a new desktop background, guess I have found what I was looking for :tu:
:oops: :oops: :oops: Thanks Trent, i am blushing a bit.
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Post by squizzy »

Hi Bodhi,

For me the magic in this style is that the tree seems to be alive and almost constantly moving while it remains perfectly still. That is what amazes me about this tree. Can anyone else see this or should I just get some more sleep?

Thanks for posting

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