Flower - 2.5 inches

Flowering plant - 12 inches with pot

yellow macro

A small plant of this beautiful orchid was given to me by a friend and neighbor, it has in the meantime grown to a large plant with 4 flower stalks this year.

I keep it outdoors all year round.

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Diese Orchidee bekam ich von einer Freundin und Nachbarin. Inzwischen ist es eine grosse Pflanze die dieses Jahr 4 Blumenrispen hat.

Die Orchidee lebt das ganze Jahr hindurch draussen im Patio.

Phalaenopsis

Orchids from the special exhibit at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

It's a bit floribundant.

Pacific Orchid Exposition

大阪 咲くやこの花館 蘭

Orchid, detail

(Canon 6D + Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM)

Friend gave this orchid plant as a gift. It is beautiful. Testing out the Sigma 50mm lens at widest aperture to blur the boring background.

Taken at Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, PA.

Beautiful orchid in garden section of store

Longwood Gardens PA

orchid in bloom @ home place

This orchid is very special to me for a couple of reasons. One, is that it is named for a special person, and two, it is the first orchid that has bloomed twice from the same spray. I have never seen that happen before. Originally, it had two large sprays of blooms, and they lasted about two weeks. The last of the blooms fell off but 3 week later, I noticed that two flower buds had formed on the ends of the old spray. They have now bloomed. This is the two on one spray.

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Home grown orchid. Experiment with Helicon focus stacking software - 9 images. Nikon D4. 105 mm Micro.

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Orchid Show, 2015

Victoria, B.C. Canada

for Kev & Chris

Flower size 6mm.

The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY -- March 6, 2010

Botanical Gardens shot.

A pretty orchid from a great orchid booth at the California State Flower, Food and Garden show. My camera is broken. I decided to also sell my Canon XSI because it is all too complicated for me. I found another camera that is going to be much more fun but I don't have it yet.