The Art of Bonsai Project

My congratulations to Art of Bonsai for the successful competition which you ran ith enthusiasm. My sincere thanks to you the organisers, judges, translators and the sponsors for the time and money spent to inspire us to create better trees and compete with the best who have the will to compete. Congratulations to the winners.

Many thanks to all the staff of Art of Bonsai to organize this contest. I was very happy to participate with one of my bonsai tree. Thanks to all the staff and judges. A special thank to Marco Invernizzi to give the ICHIBAN Award to my tree.
Greetings from Italy, Alfredo Salaccione

Somehow a reply I posted here disappeared. Can you recontruct that or do you know why it is lost?

Best regards
Morten Albek

Strange, I'll look into it Morten, thanks for the heads up.



Will

Regarding the prizes for this competition I appreciate that the organizers are busy. But as it is now more than six months since the announcement of who the winners were is there any known date when we can expect to receive our prizes of the Robert Steven pots?

I have tried to contact the organizers several times. I do not know why, but nothing happens. I got an answer that told that they were busy, but since then nothing has been done. I hope it finally will be settled soon.

Regards
Morten Albek

As Robert and Morten are aware, I am also yet to receive my Robert Steven pot.
This episode has not done nothing to enhance the reputation of this site or its organisers.
The term 'disappointed' does not sum up how I feel regarding it.

I would have been more than happy with an 'official winners certificate' e-mailed to me from AoB, such was the respect I had for the site and the competition, rather than a pot which did not appear.

As a retired UK Police Officer, 30 years experience tells me I should cynically put this whole matter down to experience and forget it.

I do not perfer not to exist, I have family obligations now that are painful and time consuming, as much as I love bonsai, somethings take presidence.

Talk of shutting AoB down is foolish, this site still contains more interviews, galleries, and quality content pertaining to the ART of bonsai than any other place on the web. The information here is too valuable to even consider losing over a handful of pots that have yet to be delivered. Even without new content flowing, this site still ranks high and still gets a ton of traffic.

I was never the unofficial boss, I just had the time and energy to keep quality content flowing, sadly it seems that my absense brought this place to a halt and other editors could not take my place while I tended to my ailing mother.

Morten, you will get your pots, as will the few others that have yet to recieve them, they are still here, still good, and not going anywhere. Since I am 168 miles away from them at the moment, I can not say exactly when, sorry.

I am still awaiting prizes for winning my catagory in the KoB contest from 2007!