June 22, 2005
Bee Orchid Gallery
An email on Monday in my inbox from S, determined to make me jealous as hell of the botanising he's been up to recently. The bastard! A suite of stunning macro shots of various forms of Bee Orchid - to quote S directly: "The forms are: typical apifera, bicolor, trollii, friburgensis, belgarum and
the bee-autiful chlorantha."
Bee-autiful?! I can't better that.
The idea was to make this a strictly Bee Orchid gallery, and save some other photos he kindly sent me for another day. However, one is just so good it demands a sneak preview - an alba Pyramidal Orchid. Phew!
So, once again huge thanks to S for letting me display these excellent photos. At some point I'll have to put some sort of photo-story of my own on here rather than relying on the generosity of others (you've been warned - my photos are likely to be significantly less inspiring than his!) - the Northern Marsh Orchids are just coming into flower here at long last, so there's some potential.
On the same subject, I stumbled across a website based predominantly in Hampshire that's well worth a look - another botanising birder! Some gorgeous orchid photo galleries. Check out Peter's Purple Pages in the kinks below.
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Posted by Stercorarius at June 22, 2005 09:32 AM