ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Having a love of Japanese culture via my Japanese wife I have cultivated and grown my own Bonsai. Every winter this one drops it's leaves and leaves a lovely skeletal outline. Bonsai is a Japanese art form using trees grown in containers. Similar practices exist in other cultures, including the Chinese tradition of penjing from which the art originated, and the miniature living landscapes of Vietnamese hòn non bộ. The Japanese tradition dates back over a thousand years. The purposes of bonsai are primarily contemplation and the pleasant exercise of effort and ingenuity (It gives me my Zen for taking photo's). By contrast with other plant cultivation practices, bonsai is not intended for production of food or for medicine. Instead, bonsai practice focuses on long-term cultivation and shaping of one or more small trees growing in a container.

AUTHOR
I am an amateur photographer living Queensland Australia. I am a late comer to photography only taking up a camera at age 45. My passion for photography grows each time I have a camera in my hand, and my goal is to share my world through my camera. Good photography comes from that moment when light, location and composition all combine to capture and create emotion. Sometimes that emotion is one of raw determination, a swimmer lunging to touch the wall, the laughter of a small child, or that special feeling while witnessing a once in a lifetime occasion. To capture those emotions, to record those moments, and preserve those memories is an unique opportunity.

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