American Bonsai Society New Talent Competition

Photos from the 2024 ABS's annual New Talent Competition at the Learning Seminars at the Fredrick Meijer Gardens & Sclupture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The New Talent Competition was quite interesting and was set up much like the one the BSGC hosts annually in the fall.  Each contestant had to have been practicing bonsai for less than 10 years and had to submit an application along with photographs of trees that they had styled on their own.  Of the submissions, eight were selected for the competition and I was lucky enough to have been chosen (unless, of course, there were only 8 applicants.)