Category Archives: NYC

Textures and Lines

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My eyes are always drawn to lines, patterns and textures everywhere, and photographing flowers was no exception.

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The orchids specially have so many patterns and textures.

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They’re like fingerprints … no two seem to be exactly alike.

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Maybe similar … but not the same.

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There were even some that reminded me of those Rorschach blots and tests.  Do they still use those tests?

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Or one of those art projects where you splatter blobs of paint on the paper; then fold the paper in half to make mirror images.

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Hmmm … this kind of looks like a face …

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Some look like they were painted on the petals …

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… and some look like sun rays ..

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Designs within designs …

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So much beauty in nature, isn’t there?

Iris Orchid

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My new colour palette and flower obsession for this visit.

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iris flowerI call it the Iris Orchid, because the colours reminded me of the iris flower that I had taken a photo (at right) of some years back.  I do see some similarities to the orchid.  As usual, I didn’t look for the name plate that would identify this orchid. I’m getting bad at this, but then my focus wasn’t exactly on the scientific names of the orchids. I was just there to enjoy their beauty!

I wish there was an image search capability – for example, where I can show Google a picture and ask it to come up with the name?

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Spider Orchid

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What I call the Spider Orchid … or a variety of it.

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I was very absent-minded this year, I wasn’t looking at the tags for the names of the orchids.  I’m now trying to google to find out the names.  Next year I’ll do better.  And if there are any orchid experts out there that can identify and name these, please do drop me a line!  Thanks in advance.

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Swooping Dancing Ladies

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I thought this looked like the Christmas angels swooping down from the top of the tree.

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‘Don’t you see the ladies, Mom?’, asked the boys.  ’Look, the face, the wings, the skirt …’

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Yes, indeed.  It remains one of the boys’ favourite orchids.  They always look out for those.

Perennial Beauties

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Perennial beauties at the Garden. I’m actually getting familiar with them, and expect to see them.

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And because it is the same orchids each year, I try to do a different theme each visit.  This year, I decided to just use the NIkon 105mm and take macro shots of the orchids and plants.  A different challenge, as it does make you think about the composition of a shot.

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It’s not wide enough to take a shot of a whole piece unless you step back a distance.

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Sometimes I’m too close that I still have to step back because I wasn’t liking the macro shot.  Or maybe I just didn’t have my settings right …

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Either way, it was a good learning exercise in photography.  Hope you enjoy the series.