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Portrait of a Bee Orchid

By teocali
Close-up of a Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) taken in Essex last June. The background has been digitally processed using a Gaussian blur.

My thanks to you all for your generous support of yesterday's upload - much appreciated as always Smile

Tags: Wild Orchid Essex Flowers and plants Close-up and macro Bee orchid Ophrys apifera Digitally processed Belhus Park

Voters: Chas05, richmowil, RobertTurley and 28 more


Uploaded:
25 Jan 2014 9:02AM
Camera:
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens:
EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Shutter Speed:
1/100s
Aperture:
f/13.0
ISO:
320
Focal Length:
100.0 mm
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Comments


ColleenA Plus
8 471 7 Australia
25 Jan 2014 9:15AM
A beauty ..lovely orchid, great capture
Maiwand 14 3 73 England
25 Jan 2014 9:40AM
Beautiful flower Sylvia. Unfortunatel fast becoming a rarity in the wild.GrinGrinGrinGrinGrinGrinGrinGrin
Ron
boov Plus
8 2 United Kingdom
25 Jan 2014 11:00AM
Fabulous..
Greyheron 19 282 7 England
25 Jan 2014 1:50PM
A fine portrait Sylvia, showing plenty of detail against a beautifully natural background…

Mike
Glostopcat 14 255 2 England
25 Jan 2014 2:45PM
An exquisite image Sylvia, you've caught this beautiful and rare orchid in some excellent light which has really brought out the colours and the fine details
FrancisChiles 10 4 Canada
25 Jan 2014 3:36PM
A beautiful close-up.
johnjo58 10 2 5 United Kingdom
25 Jan 2014 4:57PM
a really wonderful little flower well captured Sylvia

David
pluckyfilly 14 351 33 United Kingdom
25 Jan 2014 5:11PM
detail outstanding Sylvia - one day I might be as good as youWink
tomcat 15 6.4k 15 United Kingdom
25 Jan 2014 6:15PM
You have retained the sharpness where it matters

Adrian
AlexAppleby 7 2 United Kingdom
25 Jan 2014 8:37PM
Wonderful shot, the background is gorgeous (although I don't know what you've done to it)!!!
viscostatic 14 49 9 United Kingdom
12 Feb 2014 8:08PM
Really beautiful colours and detail Sylvia.

Phil.

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