black pine

http://imgur.com/a/c1pB3 Picked up this Black Pine today with some flaws. The reverse taper, circular roots and such cannot be repaired. I need some help developing the style and future of this tree. What do you guys think? Should I tilt, jin, or some combination of both?

Here's an inexpensive and rewarding project. There are lots of resources on this - I think that most of them follow the method published in "Matsuo, K., Black Pine from Seed, Bonsai Today #20, pp. 39-50". Here are some great links: Black Pine from Seed A Few Pine Seeds, Six Years Later How to...

Merry Christmas, folks! Visited this place a couple of months ago to check out their Bonsai collection, pots they had and was not disappointed at all.. Here are some pics from the visit.

This is a tree I bought from my teacher in March. He wanted me to wire it and put it in our club show back in April. But after studying it, I chose to repot it and begin addressing it's faults: S-curve trunk, with long straight sections Thick branching vs. trunk size Erratic nebari March 2015:

Here's one of my black pines. I bought it a little over two years ago from Jim Gremel. I wired it out completely over the past couple of days - the first time it's seen wire since I purchased it from Jim. Thought I'd share it and some things I think I've learned in caring for this tree...