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One of the many Native Orchids that flower in spring in the South-West of Australia.Related content
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Really pretty flowers, nicely composed & separated from the background
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I Love the color! very nice feel and title
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Oh! How dainty! 
I like that it's cropped so that they're center stage, too.
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I dont like the composition, but the motive is fantastic <3
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How would you improve the composition if you could?
I don't understand what you mean by the "motive". Could you please explain?
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hm ... I meean the subject on the picture 
i dont know, maybe i would add background at the bottom of the picture. well,i am not an expert 
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Thanks for taking the time to comment and explain.
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this is gorgeous! square compositions are really hard to do, but you seem to have figured out the perfect way to balance them
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I would love to claim it true, but the truth is that it was purely accidental.
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Wow, so beautiful! Stunning flow of movement
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I adore the name you gave this, it fits it perfectly, and also influenced how I viewed it, in a good way! It looks so delicate and elegant.
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I admit I was trying to influence the way people viewed it by giving it that name. It was the way I saw it.
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I was going to tell you they looked like dancers and then I saw the title. Excellent work!
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Yep, we have those in our backyard!
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What a wonderful backyard you must have.
Damn and now you have my curiosity aroused!
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We have a few other flowers too
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G'day.
I take it you're in WA?
Thanks for the watch!
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Nah, I'm in the ACT!
My parents managed to get the plant here and don't ask me how they amange to keep it alive in this kind of climate 
Oh and you're welcome!
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I guess that could explain the wandering spirits.
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These look less like flowers and more like little pretty spiders, or something.
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I guess that's why they call them Spider Orchids.
Thanks
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There is extraordinary grace and elegance captured here; a composition replete with beauty and music...
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What a wonderful comment!
Thank you.
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Nice picture, excellent contrast between the flowers and the background, really makes the flowers stand out. I think Australia has a lot to offer with its native orchids but they are seriously underappreciated and underrepresented.
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I agree, but they can be really difficult to find. I had seen these particular ones on an earlier walk and even knowing their whereabouts, it took me a while to relocate them when I had my camera in hand instead of my dogs.
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They tend to be found in totally unexpected places (the ground orchids) and don't always oblige by being there the following year. I usually don't have a camera with me when I find a spectacular ground orchid and the only two I have pictures of the pictures arn't very good. Even worse is when you do have a camera and discover that the lenses are junk when the film is developed (or you throw the picture up on the computer screen). I spent half an hour getting pictures of this orchid [link] , making sure the focus was spot on, very carefully setting aperture and exposure to get greatest colour and contrast, using self timer to eliminate camera shake, fighting with the tripod and grass to set the tripod whilst trying not to slide down the hill (or fall off, it was a little steep) - nothing is in sharp focus and the depth of field isn't much thicker than a sheet of paper. At first I thought it was me but examining more pictures revealed - the lense was junk.
I know when they flower and where to find them (above 650m on Mt Ernest, fortunately they are fairly common up there) so I'll just have to wander back up there in December for a better picture (and try not to get run over by any more logs in the process).
I always love coming across unexpected items in the bush and I think ground orchids would be about the most unexpected and delightful and have the most interesting flower of any native orchids I have seen.
After finding a ground orchid in the Warrumbungles I thought of carrying around a few background screens, just a bit of mottled material between two wires that can be set up behind the flower to give a good background to better show the flower, because a nice contrasting background like you have is not always there.
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I empathise. But unlike you, my equipment surpasses my skills and my skills are less than my enthusiasm. Mostly I bring home 'blur'.
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Your gallery proves you at least get some good shots that are lacking in blur. The problem I have is the automatic everything makes it very difficult to get the shot exactly as I want it and macro is very much hit or miss (more often miss) and some things the camer just won't focus on for some reason.
The log was burnt at both ends, no roots, no branches to prevent it rolling and weighed about a tonne. The damn thing broke my tripod and I never got the pic I was after (that actually had nothing to do with the log), the story is here if you are interested [link] (it even has a picture taken from 2.5Km away that shows the log).
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You're lucky it was only the tripod it broke. Log repellent sounds like a good idea.
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I'm still working on it but I can't find any volunteers to test it.
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I can't imagine why. It sounds like such a fun experience.
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LOL, I take it you are volunteering, the log is still there.
Personally I think it woulld make a good, exciting Olympic sport.
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