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| Posted: Wed Oct 28th, 2020 11:55 |
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Bob Bowen
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Cracking images Richard. Admire your skill and agility. If I got down that low nowadays I'd need a crane to get me up.. Keep 'em coming.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28th, 2020 19:23 |
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Richard_M
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Graham Whistler wrote:Super pictures thanks for sharing them with us. Thank you, I'm glad you like them
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28th, 2020 19:31 |
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Richard_M
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jk wrote:Great images Richard. Thank you Jonathon Yes, the majority are very small. Many can be covered by an Australian 5c coin, which would be similar in size to a British penny (roughly 20mm) With regards magnification at a guess many would be 1:2 with the odd one 1:1
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28th, 2020 19:48 |
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Richard_M
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Bob Bowen wrote:Cracking images Richard. Admire your skill and agility. If I got down that low nowadays I'd need a crane to get me up.. Keep 'em coming. Thank you Bob I don't get down and dirty, I leave that for the camera.  I either have the camera inverted on a low tripod so the lens is close to the ground, you will see why when I show a few of the helmet orchids. If its windy I will take the photos handheld, and as with using the tripod I use LV via an articulated screen for focusing and composing.Many of the orchids are amongst bull ant nests, you can see a few in image #8 of the first post of this thread. An example of orchid leaves on the side of a bull ant nest  These are what they look like  Another reason for using the camera inverted on a tripod, or handheld, not all of the orchids are in a location to get down low, like these helmets surrounded by bracken  Quite a number of enthusiasts will laydown to take photos, unfortunately many times they end up laying on other orchids I'll post a few more orchids shortly
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28th, 2020 20:41 |
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Richard_M
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Here are a few of the Helmet Orchids which flower close by. These are basically a winter flowering orchid #1 Spurred Helmet Orchid (Coybas aconitiflorus)  #2 Fringed Helmet Orchid (Corybas fimbriatus)  #3 Veined Helmet Orchid (Corybas diemenicus)  #4 Mountain Helmet Orchid (Corybas grumulus)  #5 Pelican Orchid (Corybas unguiculatus)  #6 Slaty Helmet Orchid (Corybas incurvus) with Aus 5c coin for size comparison  #7 Slaty Helmet Orchid (Corybas incurvus) closeup of previous orchid  #8 Slaty Helmet Orchid (Corybas incurvus) profile image when they are fully upright 
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28th, 2020 23:13 |
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Robert
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Amazing, the variety and quality is astounding, thank you for sharing with us. These are tiny Orchids, as you note, finding them must be a challenge. I assume habitat will be a clue but they still need finding at the right time in order to see them at all. I have read that the tubers are minute, no more than 3 to 4mm in length, that is amazing. I find the genus Coybas naming very interesting, apparently the genus was named by Richard Salisbury for a male Greek dancer, shown in illustrations wearing a crested helmet, who worshipped the goddess Cybele. Korybas was a priest of Cybele, "whose religious rites were accompanied by frenzied music and dancing". As you may have gathered, I am very interested in commemorative plant names and their origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Anthony_Salisbury
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2020 03:39 |
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jk
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Robert, you need to tell Richard about your book. How close to finishing it are you?
____________________ Still learning after all these years! https://nikondslr.uk/gallery_view.php?user=2&folderid=none |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2020 05:38 |
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Robert
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The text is finished. The book is entitled Discoverii and is effectively a dictionary of commemorative plant names with information about the author (the person named in the plant) ranging from a few words to two or three pages for individuals who were more active or well connected. In all around 625,000 words, originally typed manually by my late father in 1972/3. I have it on my iPhone, in iBooks format, fully searchable, in fact that was what I referenced for some of my comments here. What I need to do is incorporate the illustrations and publish, my big holdback has been how to publish it. I was intending originally to use Kindle, but then Apple introduced iBooks. The book relies heavily on styles of formatting, a bit like a dictionary. I have issues with using a publishing service like Kindle and iBooks but hope to publish it from my own website, which I now have a decent hosting for, thanks to Chris. https://www.lcn.com This was why I needed an up to date version of In-Design because publishing on 'tinternet is a fast moving target and formats and protocols are changing rapidly, especially on the security side with many browsers set to ignore or reject 'insecure' websites. This means the content and the site itself need to be well up to recent standards. Monetising is is less important than getting it published; using the Kindle or Apple platforms seems to me absurd, they take 30% of any revenue, then the US IRS take 30% of what's left. Then you have to explain it all to UK Customs and Revenue, the (considerable) allowable expenses incurred fall well outside the permitted timeframe so I can't offset any tax against incurred expenses apart from perhaps the hosting. The administration effort just isn't worth the candle. So, my intention is to publish in the form of a free website, a little like Roland Vinks pages. But to be honest I have been so busy with distractions over the last few years that no progress has been made for far too long. I keep adding to my photographs whenever I get a chance and this interesting tidbit in my last post has added another morsel of new information about Richard Salisbury which will be added to my notes but I have resolved not to add anything new to the text, except to correct any factual errors I might notice, until it is published, else it will be self perpetuating (if it isn't already...). I am still alert to commemorative plant names but seem to be in something of a log jam at the moment. ...And time ticks by.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2020 11:34 |
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jk
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Robert, I think we need a telephone call to sort out a way forward. I am sure that it is possible and it is not so difficult once you get started. Give me a call.
____________________ Still learning after all these years! https://nikondslr.uk/gallery_view.php?user=2&folderid=none |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2020 16:30 |
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Richard_M
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Sounds like it will be a great resource when its published Robert. I have only been photographing native orchids for a few years. I spent many years photographing fungi, mostly in the same reserves as several orchids. It was one of my neighbour's who suggested I should check out a few of the orchids in one of our local reserves. I was in the reserve one afternoon wandering along one of the tracks when I met another photographer who showed me a patch of mosquito orchids. They are so small and with my ageing eyes, I could not see any detail in the flower at all. It was only when I was looking at the image on the computer, I could see it properly. One thing about native orchids there are species flowering all year round, whereas fungi is generally only for a few months each year. I still photograph fungi if I see some while on my travels, and still travel out the odd night for ghost fungi. Omphalotus nidiformis aka Ghost Fungi. It was a full moon this evening hence ambient light in the background. No moon is better to see the ghost fungi glow   Mosquito Orchids (Acianthus pusillus)  Closeup of usual colour  Occasionally you can also see them in green form  
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