People at Noelanders

Lots of IBCers were at the Noelanders, and since Russel would rather go to a mall than look at photos of people he doesn't care about here's a new thread to post people shots.

Hans VanMeer by his Hawthorn


Bill Valvanis and his assistant, Corin Tomlinson, working on a demo


Walter Pall moderating the demos while Ryan Neil works in the background


Tom Benda showing off an amazing pot he made in his kiln. Would have loved to taken that pot home but a bit big for the airline overhead bin.


Mike Feduccia, of Florida, served as Ryan Neil's assistant for the demos


Vaclav Novak next to a tree he grew from a seed for the Kifu (medium size) tree award.


Mark Noelanders and Reg Bolton at the banquet


Kath and Malcolm Hughs at the banquet. Kath is a BCI Board Member.


David Benevente at the vendor area.


Simon Temblett by his winning Willow (BCI Excellence Award) . Simon is not a regular here but I have seen several of his trees and he has talent! He also made the pot this tree is in.


Morea and Chris in the vendor area.


Tony and I have a bonding moment in the vendor area


Mauro Stemberger and his BCI Excellence Award Taxus


Gabrielle Moreno from Cancun Mexico. (Gabrielle is one of the leaders in Mexican bonsai tapping into the vast amount of collect-able material in the Yuccatan)


Ryan Neil making another interesting comment while Walter listens.



Me, Tom Benda and Yvonne


Peter Landerloos at Tony's booth in the vendor area

Haha, these are actually pretty good - and lots of familiar faces. Tom Benda's pots are beautiful, love the interesting square one in the middle.

Thanks a lot Rob. Many friends there. It must be a very good show.

Budi

Hello,
Where was Toms boot, i was hoping to find some pots of him?
Well, i went home with a hawthorn of Chris, (also on my list),
i was in the south of Wales a few month ago and had no time to visit.
Sunip

I always enjoy these sorts of threads. Its fun to see folks I've spoken with or PM'd on the forum all having a good time. I look forward to meeting many IBC members at the Expo in rochester in June.
-Jay

Ps that Willow is baking my noodle, I saved the picture and will hence forth use it as a styling reference for my own. Man that thing is awesome!

Such events are always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet some new ones.
It's been a blast seeing you all again.

Nik Rozman wrote:Such events are always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet some new ones.
It's been a blast seeing you all again.

Busted Tony, me working my ass of at your stall and you drinking some mmmmmm very nice belgian beer

Peter

It looked like a great weekend Rob.

I enjoyed the photos very much.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Paul

Davide Benavente from Spain



Jarek Lenarczyk from Poland



Jorge Campos from Spain



Mauro Stemberger from Italy



Ryan Neil from USA



Tony Tickle from England



Ryan Neil and Mike from USA, Matja from Slovenia, WP from Germany



Bill vlavanis from USA, Corin Tomlinson from England



Vaclav Novak and crew from Tchech Republik

Hello You all here!
It was nice to meet some of You on Noelanders.
Rob, it seems like I should thank You for this thread :-)
Sunip, I was at the stand of Nick Pearce.
But we have another chance to meet in September in Holland.

The Václav Novák's crew consist of :-) Jiří Walker Procházka
and Jan Culek, who is Czech's last NTC winner.

Hi Tom,
Where will this be?
Sunip

Rob, thanks for sharing the pictures.
I suppose to be there for demo, but I was so sad to cancell as it's just on the Chinese New Year...otherwise, must be fun to meet so many buddies there..

Marc promises me for next year...

Willy Evenepoel. The ever faithful and hard at work photographer of the Bonsai in the show.



Thanks Willy and Antje for all the years that you both have worked so hard to make pretty pictures of our trees!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Hans van Meer. wrote:Willy Evenepoel. The ever faithful and hard at work photographer of the Bonsai in the show.



Thanks Willy and Antje for all the years that you both have worked so hard to make pretty pictures of our trees!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

You could not be more right Hans.....
Also a photo of Luc Nagels would be nice....Sorry, I dont have one.

I and my friends ran into carproblems, and Luc was sitting, waiting for my tree... I arrived 00.45...deadline was 22.00
Now, this is what I call a unexpected hartwarming welcome.

Kind regards Yvonne

your wish is my command Yvonne

Luc Nagels and the italian suit Marc Noelanders



And here we have Andy aka Stone monkey



Peter

Thanks Peter, my friend

Hi Rob, Mauro, David, Jarek, Tony, Hans, Bill, Walter, Yvonne, Mark, Kath and Malcolm,

It is really very good to see your happy faces. You have enjoyed wonderful show.

Congratulations to the Committee for the wonderful success.

Warm regards,
Budi