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Dispite the horrible odds my car was fixed in a few hours on saturday so I was able to get to the second day of the orchid show. here's the best shots I was able to muster with their "no tripods allowed" rule.
and finally these are the life size botanically accurate sculptures done by Mist Orchids, they were selling reduced size cold cast porcellain versions but of course I was only interested in the not for sale prototypes. simply amazing sculpting work! (but can he guy sculpt a 1943 superman or pus dripping zombie...
You ought to see the plants who's pics didn't turn out. Gongora (several amazing looking types of these dragon orchids), Pleurotallis, Masdevallia, Resptrepia, Porroglossum, etc. Without a tripod photoing the microscopic but extremely bizzare looking Pleurothallid alliance orchids I like so much didn't work at all. Merely the rotation of the earth is enough to cause their blooms to vibrate and go out of focus.... It doesn't help many of them such as Dracula bloom upside down or hang upside down and there's no where for me to lay on my back in the aisle to shoot up at the table to get their wild shaped blooms.
It's always what you couldn't get that eats at you (well me anyway)!
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