Win a Masterclass with Kunio Kobayashi & Ryan Neil

[Gerard]

Congratulations Ryan, the photo with the city in the background was a bit special too! You are in for a couple of busy days but don’t put the camera away.
Thanks Steven for your generosity and vision, I have taken over a thousand ‘portrait shots’ of bonsai which are important for records but are a bit like people portraits which are posed and somehow lack a spark of life. We try so hard to make our trees natural and then set them in a pose for a photo, it has been a lot of fun trying to show things as they are.
Someone should start a post ‘Arty Farty Photos’ (thanks Mel) it might run forever
I liked the 3 point display by Kez (great colours)
We learned that Mark has bonsai for breakfast.
And I am sure Watto’s size 10’s made everybody smile.

[melbrackstone]

Yay Ryceman!!! Congrats!

Have a great weekend!

Thanks for getting me motivated again Steven, I'm starting to look at picking the camera up a bit more often! Well done everyone who entered!

Guess I'd better start thinking about an arty farty post too, ta Gerard!

[Keep Calm and Ramify]

Congrats R3! Sounds like an action packed few days for you. Enjoy the experience!

Guess I'd better start thinking about an arty farty post too, ta Gerard!

Mel, You must know I'm very arty farty excited!

[melbrackstone]

Mel, You must know I'm very arty farty excited!

I suspect there might be a few of us around KCAR.

[Ryceman3]

Thanks to all for your congratulations, I'm pretty excited/nervous/whatever - never done a workshop before.
Right now I'm madly packing before I get ready to say those two magic words ...
ROAD TRIP!

[Snipz]

Congrats R3, completely agree that it's a great shot but really enjoyed viewing the other entries

[terryb]

Congratulations Ryceman3, a great opportunity!

[pjames]

Congrats Ryceman3 . Have fun!

[Greg F]

Enjoy your trip Ryan im sure it will be great, congrats.

Greg

[Miikeboyle]

Have fun, learn heaps and take heaps of photos.

[Ryceman3]

Had a massive day at the first workshop with Kunio Kobayashi... so much fun and bonsai talk with fellow tragics combined with the teachings of Mr Kobayashi made the day just fantastic. Many thanks to all who came up and congratulated me on my win, I enjoyed meeting you all. It was great to hang out next to dansai for the workshop, and thanks for letting me wrestle with your juniper - who knew it would end up on the angle it did!
Nice to meet pjames too, also doing some great stuff in the workshop!
Looking forward to the next few days ... still feels a bit surreal. Photos will follow when I get back to Melbourne and can hopefully put together some that do justice to the event.
Can’t thank Ausbonsai and Steven enough for a wonderful opportunity, I’m enjoying it immensely!

[melbrackstone]

Good on ya Ryceman!

[MJL]

Cheers for the update R3, great to hear that you arrived safely and are enjoying it already. Top stuff.

[Keels]

Great win there Ryceman3. I spent the day with Ryan. It was a pretty mad day. I'll keep an eye out for you tomorrow

[kcpoole]

Well done R3 and look forward to the pics.
Please make a thread for them on its own
Same to the others that went, post them all so we can all enjoy the experiences from afar.

Ken