Ryan Neil's Convention Critique session on Natives Videos

[DavidN]

Hi All
I was lucky enough to be at the recent AABC Convention and hear Ryan's critique session on some of our Australian Native bonsai.
I took video and have posted on Youtube. If you haven't already seen these, then I think they are great critiques on some of our Australian Natives as bonsai.

https://youtu.be/Vp88ho-pOL0

https://youtu.be/l1G5o8FR8Ck

https://youtu.be/1eivCzJTleg

https://youtu.be/rTUcVTq25u0

https://youtu.be/6-Iv0rO5BE0

[treeman]

Thanks David.
I have a comment

Marcela's melaleuca. It has been my favourite stypheliodes for a long time. Truly magnificent lines. But Ryan's comment about a change of pot reducing the visual value of the tree I must disagree with. To me the present pot does not visually support the volume of this tree, lacks stability and contrary to Ryan's suggestion that that pot's value rests with the fact that it reflects a natural landscape, I feel that the two elements are actually competing with each other due to their similarity. I feel a rectangle of the right texture, depth, and colour would contrast with and visually enhance the qualities of this tree. A completely flat natural stone much larger (wider) than this pot would also be effective IMO.
But after all that, one of my favourite bonsai of all time, let alone native bonsai.
Why do potters think that stones need to hold soil and be shaped like boats? They don't.

[Elmer]

Hi David, the video links are not working so I went to your YouTube account and couldn't find them either

[LLK]

Thanks, David, but I can't get the videos either. Got a lot of polo images for the first and after that only got "This video is not available". Looking forward to good access!

Lisa

[PWC]

They certinly worked yesterday, but appear to be unavailable now.

[Rolf]

They certinly worked yesterday, but appear to be unavailable now.

I watched all of them earlier this week!!

My guess its copyright, some people are extremely sensitive with that!!

Cheers

Rolf