California Juniper
Uploaded: May 18, 2014 | Entered: May 18, 2014 09:58:46
This is a California Juniper from the Tehachapi Mountains. It is a couple hundred years old and has been cultivated as a bonsai by Kimura Bonsai in Northridge, California. I replaced the background with a texture from French Kiss that I applied gaussian blur to. I then rendered it into an oil painting using Snap Art 4.
As you can see in the image, you cannot see the back side/rim of the bonsai container. When I was at a bonsai exhibit in Los Angeles (Little Tokyo), one of the Japanese bonsai experts told me that that is the proper way to photograph them. I had no idea and was glad that he told me that before I started taking any pictures. Many people photograph these beautiful trees from a higher position, and he told me that angle did not produce the proper viewing of the trees. Now I understand why so many of the viewers were bending down low to look at them.
Exif: F Number: 13, Exposure Bias Value: 1.00, ExposureTime: 1/25 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 200, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 33.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Mitch Spence
May 18, 2014
Dominick M. Dimacale
May 18, 2014
Dominick #11047407
David Resnikoff
May 19, 2014
Wonderful image and impecable presentation
David R #11047808
Emile Abbott
June 30, 2014
David Resnikoff
June 30, 2014
Congratulations
Well deserved finalist
David R #11074689
Carol Eade
July 01, 2014
Emile Abbott
July 02, 2014
Shelly A. Van Camp
July 04, 2014
Marilyn K. Lincecum
July 06, 2014
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