purple early marsh orchid

from a reasonably local area, i don't know if this purple strain is rarer or more common but they seem to be the only type round here.

i have plenty of similar shots with OOF green foregrounds but i prefered this one

40D + 180mm F3.5L
1/500 @ f4
ISO 400
full frame

Hi Jack,

It's a good effort. The colours look nice and also I do not mind the DoF. There are only two little nits for me and they are: The leaf that reaches up to the flowers on the left hand side of the image I find a little distracting and also the damage to the leaves makes them look a little untidy, not a lot to be done about it though!!

Othe rthan those as I said good effort.

Regards

Rob

I think it would be better without the pale Oof grass stem cutting through the rh leaf and a cleaner specimen would have helped. I like the way you have isolated it from the surrounding veg though and I admire anybody who can take a decent picture of a plant because mine all end up looking like snaps.
Eric

A rather tatty example but it's an effective enough shot. The white grass on the right is a bit intrusive. Did you try any shots framing it more to the rhs?
John

Far from tatty, this is what they look like, its the puchella variety of the species and in good shape. A buit more gardening and a lean to the right before the shot would have really helped this image which is pleasing none the less.