UPS was just here and I tore the box open. Took a quick shot everything in default mode. Date is like 18 months ago. :-)

Color is beautiful without any editing. I'm happy.

and a yellow shot using a 105mm macro lense

Kathy,
are you being flooded right now? I hear the news while I'm sitting here. How far are you from Smith? Our oldest GD is studying engineering there.

Fred

Alright you guys! Now you have me seriously thinking about a new camera! And a tripod! All to take pictures of flowers...

Fred, the red one is scrumptious! I love it!

Fred, how does it do with blue?

SBOE is resending Astral Waif. They were just great about it. They were unsure about the ID on the one I received.
Kathy, Den. Nora T just started to bloom.
Ursula, LC Irene Finney has just broken through the sheath. Is yours in bloom? I thought it was later bloom?

I haven't taken any blue flowers with the Nikon D300S yet...in fact I've taken very few pics...not much to photograph...I'll have to wait until bulbs start to bloom outside in another couple of weeks.

Fred , you're going to have some fun with that!!!

That's great Fred. What a difference in color. I love new cameras even when they are someone elses.

It's very wet here but I haven't seen any roads closed due to flooding. I live a half hour from Smith. That's where the bulb show was. http://cubits.org/orchids/thre...

I've never had any problems with my D200 shooting blue. I can try the D300s on some blue vandas in the morning.

I'm paging through the 400 page manual. At least they give you one. Most things now a days tell you to print your own. I also bought two books on the camera and am presently reading the first. Still don't know how to shoot movies but it'll come. While reading I also watched Uconn murder Florida State. Multitasking and all that.

Laurel did you say your daughter graduated from Smith two years ago? What was her major?
fred

Janice, about the Lc Irene Finney - it is a Spring bloomer.
My 'Springs Best' is getting ready to break through the sheaths very soon, 'Chicago' is a little slower.
We will both have a pretty show!!

My Rhyncholaelia glauca started blooming this weekend, I see a few more fat sheaths to open. This one has a lovely fragrance at sundown.

Here is the plant. Normally it hangs in full sun closer to the glass.

Renanthera monachica can bloom on a very small plant, producing a very cute spike.

a closer look -

Oncidium cheirophorum
I bought this years ago from J&L to see what one of the Twinkle parent would look like. I had planted it in Epiweb. ( Now Ecoweb).

For some reason this Onc cheirophorum grows and flowers better for me in the long run than Twinkle or Onc ornithorhynchum.
I like the scent - I smell a bit of Vanilla and perhaps a touch of Carnations.

Tolumnia Sniffen is opening some fresh spikes.

More of this Tolumnia

And this one was a surprise - I didn't think my Dendrochilum wenzelii was going to bloom for me this year already, it was such a tiny new plant.