Orchid Species+REPOST
by Catherine Reilly
This plant is part of the Clise Orchid Collection donated to the Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle, c. 1921. It's an early hybrid variety, and I'm sorry I couldn't maneuver to where I could catch the name of it. Spent a lot of time enthralled with its gangly growth habit and wondering how best to capture it among the steady stream of people passing through and the bright sun and all. Then in the blink of an eye, the crowd cleared out and the light changed giving me one spotlit blossom. I tell you I was so excited I felt like I was onto 'big game' on an African Safari! So please let me know if excitement got the best of me or does this look alright?
D750 on tripod, 105/2.8 micro with circ.pol., f 3.2 @ 1/2000 with -1.67 ev. The black bg was rendered in-camera, no flash; and I was trying to make the background flower, as close as it was to the subject, fade into a ghostly echo of its peer.
Sure appreciate your comments and suggestions. Thanks.
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