Winter Bonsai
by Rob Huntley
Title
Winter Bonsai
Artist
Rob Huntley
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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"WINTER BONSAI" BY ROB HUNTLEY
Although not really a Japanese bonsai tree, I have nevertheless titled this image Winter Bonsai as it bears a strong similarity with its gnarled branches and twigs. If you were to guess that it was a shrub growing in the open that has lost its summer leaf cover and is now surrounded by fresh snow you would be close. In actual fact, it is the end of a large dead tree branch that has dropped to the ground at the edge of the Ottawa River. The main part of the branch was also snow covered with only the shrub-like end branches turning upwards. The broad expanse of white in the background is the snow-covered frozen river. Since shooting this image I have returned season after season, year after year, to see if I can capture another nice shot. It is along one of my occasional walking routes not far from home. Over the years I have watched it deteriorate with age, with the severe winters and with the fact that in spring it becomes almost totally submerged in the fast flowing spring flow of the river. This summer it was gone. I don't know if NCC park maintenance crews removed it or if the spring flood waters carried it away. Goodbye my friend.
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December 1st, 2014
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