Pine Bunjin-esque Tree
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I found this Virginia pune in the woods and decided to dig it up and bring it home and turn it into a bonsai. I decided on a Bunjin style and wired it and gave it a first styling. Any opinions or advice on it?
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The only advice I can give is not to try styling recently colected materials. Colecting is stressful enough. Just let it recover a few years before doing any bonsai work on it. But I guess that advice is too late

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Does the styling at least look good?
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That is a question about personal opinion. I think you put far too much energy into getting other peoples opinions. If you think it looks good, that is the only thing that matters.
There are some basics in how a mature tree in nature grows (fex, the angles of branches in an intersection), that you are constantly missing in your design efforts. I think you need to spend more time reading and less time abusing your trees. Spend time looking at the trees. Make up a long term plan for the development. It can take a year, two year or three years. Once you are ready to style, make sure the tree is well established in the pot and healthy. And do the work on the right time of the year.
There are some basics in how a mature tree in nature grows (fex, the angles of branches in an intersection), that you are constantly missing in your design efforts. I think you need to spend more time reading and less time abusing your trees. Spend time looking at the trees. Make up a long term plan for the development. It can take a year, two year or three years. Once you are ready to style, make sure the tree is well established in the pot and healthy. And do the work on the right time of the year.
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