Post a pic

[sonic_emperor]

and a few more...
btw i wish people would send more of their works here,i really like photography

[sonic_emperor]

no topless beaches on the adriatic?

perv!!!
im not a peeping tom

[Chewy]

did you get my PM?

[sonic_emperor]

yes...soon youll get the answer

[geno888]

I was busy these days, but I'll try to post some new pics soon

[nwg]

My collection of Japanese Maple Acer plants. They were all grown from tiny plants costing a few pounds each and would now cost well over £100 each now.

There is also a Robin bird net behind the biggest one with three or four babies in it. It's nice watching the two Robin parents feeding them. Unfortunately a photo is really hard to do due to the position of the nest.

[Chewy]

Bonzai!

Been to a few nurseries with just the japenese maples, amazing horticulture.
Got a lesson one time in pruning from a friend that had taken classes from
a gardner from japan. There are 2 local lace leaf umbrella specimens, one at an older restaurant, another at a subdivision, the latter has been neglected
and has gotten malformed. The owners don't know how rare or how long they take to form right from the graft. Some night I might have to liberate that tree. It's worth about 2K, the restaurant one about 10K.

Both are about the same age, one of my clients selected the neglected tree after a 2hour drive and paid
700$ 20 years ago for it. The villa has changed hands 3 times since.

[Chewy]

I found an example of a properly maintained maple pruned not sheared.

[nwg]

I found an example of a properly maintained maple pruned not sheared.

My big Acer is nearly 10 year old. That is impressive and must be really, really old. My ones will never be that big. They come in different sizes.

[Chewy]

Those umbrella specimens are grafted on 10-20 year trunks with a cutting from an old trees lower branches where the apical meristem has gone dormant
and then held and shapped for ~10 years, and usually sell for 2 grand and up.

that picture is probably a 20-30 year old tree and only 8-10 ft high

it's an art, I got the honor of prunning some for a friend/client once, took 4 hours to snip 5-6 trees(2-3K total worth) the lady had gotten the nurseryman to dig them out of his own yard.

her husband the surgeon came home and said I can't tell what he did, she said exactly!


After doing some japanese black pines for my guru, I found a cull from kmart for 5$, planted in a raised bed on the side of a steep bank facing east, after 3-4 years transplanted behind a 6 ft high retaining wall
at the corner of my new house. 2 years later damn thing was 14 feet high and I had it in perfect shape.

[soup]

Beautiful pictures guys. I guess that's why they say "every picture tells a story". Thank you for sharing.

[nwg]

How about these for something different (and a glimpse into my music collection). My treasured Pink Floyd picture discs and Limited Editions.

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/pf/pf.htm

I also have these as well. Flaming Lips and the PF laser ones are really cool to look at. I have linked them as they look better bigger.

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/pics/whitestripes.jpg

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/pics/yello.jpg

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/pics/flaminglips.jpg

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/pics/pflaser.jpg

They all came from Ebay.

[soup]

Nice ones nwg. I like them.

[nwg]

Nice ones nwg. I like them.

Thanks, it took a while to collect them.

The Echoes 4 LP boxset is a promo version of a Limited Edition of 2000 copies worldwide.

[soup]

Well by the looks of it, it was all worth it.

it took a while to collect them.