Speci's Maple - which direction ?

[The Specimen]

Happy Saturday!

Today I thinned out my Japanese Maple.

The view is rather boring and I am contemplating a new direction (in winter) as i don't see a great tree at its current position.

I could work with the left 2 upright branches and redirect the trunk angle though it might come at the expense of the base?

Or I could try and work the opposite side being the right. Better still I could read about peoples views and experience with maples.

Critiques please

Maple after a little thinning out.. sigh


Trunk movement closeup


.. what to do what to do

[Gerard]

A good example of a tree which had a nice trunkline but has been "let go"
Too many heads and straight upright trunks/branches
Ideally you would reduce to one trunkline but that depends on how long you wish to spend developing the tree.
With this one you could consider a dramatic cut back. (but I would do that in winter)
You could remove one or two or even four branches now and see what it looks like when it reshoots.

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[The Specimen]

Thanks for the inspiration Gerard I think its on a good road going forward already

2 chops for the time being and I still got to remove that dead piece and few others too.

What do you think? View 1 or 2?

Anyone else welcomed for input.

Cheers

Speci

View 1


View 2

[Isitangus]

personally i prefer pic 2 but would also lose the "middle" branches as shown in my dodgy paint virt. just my

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[kcpoole]

when saw th first photo, my first thought was to tile to the left, then saw your rotated version and smiled

Just what i thought and here is a cleaned up virt for you

Ken

[The Specimen]

Haha first time anyone has done a virt' on my trees.. appreciate the time and effort guys.. I got give this concept a try myself sometime as it is handy!

Ken, as I was unaware of your virt as i was scrolling down then up before the first virt, I thought you had just copied my tree and thought wow strange is that my tree then I realised what you had done.

Will strive for this.. appreciate it!

[The Specimen]

Haha first time anyone has done a virt' on my trees.. appreciate the time and effort guys.. I got give this concept a try myself sometime as it is handy!

Ken, as I was unaware of your virt as i was scrolling down then up before the first virt, I thought you had just copied my tree and thought wow strange is that my tree then I realised what you had done.

Will strive for this.. appreciate it!

[kcpoole]

No worries Speci. Doing virts on a tree is a great way to visualise the outcome of an idea.
If you are like me and cannot draw for peanuts, it is the easy way out

Ken