Here are some pictures from the 32nd Mid-America Bonsai Show, held last weekend at the Chicago Botanic Garden. I'll post the pictures in several batches, to make viewing simpler.

The headliner for the show was Mr. Hiroshi Yamaji. Mr. Yamaji is a second-generation bonsai grower and teacher from near Osaka, Japan. Tho I had never heard of him until a few months ago, I think he turned out to be a fine choice as the visiting master.

Saturday afternoon he did a demonstration with this Austrian pine (Pinus nigra.) He first asked for ideas from the audience, and several were offered. Then he revealed what he had decided to do, and it was a good deal more ambitious than I had expected! I was glad for the chance to watch; this was the first time I'd ever watched this sort of procedure live.

Yamaji-san's asistant was Steve Jetzer, chosen both for his bonsai skills and (explicitly) for his strength!

The blue wrapping in the last pictures is veterinary bandage, made of a material called "coban" (TM?) Mr. Yamaji said it would need to stay in place for 3 years while the splits callous over and new bark grows

OK. Sorry, folks: for some reason my pictures aren't getting attached, or uploaded to ImagePoster.

So, if you're interested, here is a link to the same pictures on (shh!) another forum.

http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2517

Start at post #10 for my pictures.

Steve you have to resize them nothing over 500 x 500 pix

OH. Thanks, Tom.

I read the "Allowed Extensions and Sizes," below, saw "unlimited," and thought it meant I could just upload them straight from my kompootar as they were.

Does this also apply to images uploaded to Image Poster? I assume that's what one must use for embedded pictures, such as are used in progressions --- ??

treebeard55 wrote:Does this also apply to images uploaded to Image Poster? I assume that's what one must use for embedded pictures, such as are used in progressions --- ??

I believe that image poster is 600 X 600 but could be larger...need to swallow the res of my coffee first before I try it

Tom, I went thru and resized everything to maximum dimension of 500 px in any direction. But still, nothing came thru as an attachment.

Apparently there is still something I'm doing wrong. Is there a maximum size in Kb?

Steve, not sure what your doing....unfortunately this picture is 1159px × 869px , 441.69 KB - Edited 9/20/09 for the change over.... sizes changed for new format

The one below it is 80.0 KB , 343 x 427px

So my guess is its on your end...your not holding your tongue right or something

Tom, I'm not sure either. My pics are in jpeg format, which is allowed; and smaller than the ones you just posted ... maybe Firefox doesn't like this site ...

treebeard55 wrote:Tom, ... maybe Firefox doesn't like this site ...

Nope, I use Firefox as my default browser.



Got to admit I'm stumped...I can't even link these pictures.

I wonder if it might have something to do with my security settings... but I can upload fine to B-Nut and B-Chat.