Thanks Owen for providing clarification on the initial posting.  And also thanks for a great demonstration/information on not only the Pitch Pine but bonsai in general.  And thanks to the poster for the pictures.  I have the winners and it will take a couple of days to correlate them with names and post them.

Owen, why's this one potted like this?  Is there any chance that it can/will be potted in a smaller pot at some point?

There are more general and display photos in my newest blog at:

http://valavanisbonsaiblog.com

Wait until you see Part 2 with the formal portrait photos! Coming soon…..

Owen,

My photos did not come out good of your demo! I only had my iPhone with me. Sorry about that!

Bill

With all the gushing over the photos, you'd think there wouldn't be serious clipping issues within the branches of several of those trees posted @ Bill's blog.  Don't get me wrong:  Those photos are worlds better than my little iPhone6 captured.  I stood in while a few were being photographed and it was an impressive operation.

But to make such a huge fuss about all the adjustments that needed to be made afterward ...or the huge file sizes, ...and still have inconsistencies is ...funny if nothing else.

https://valavanisbonsaiblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/duncan25578.jpg?w=660&h=844
https://valavanisbonsaiblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/block-2.jpg?w=660&h=699 <-- The discoloration inside the canopy.  It's exacerbated by the fade-in of Bill's blog.

Looks like it didn't start until half-way down the blog post.

I've seen where there's a link to a trove of his files available.  I didn't look at the trove, only the ones on Bill's site.  It could be that Bill's blog software tweaked something that didn't need to be.

Touchy?

Just seems like if someone's going to go to THAT length to tell us all the effort he put in that they'd want to make sure NONE of the photos had any GLARING issues.

Did you look at the photos I linked?  Did you notice anything wrong with them?