Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (21)
Juliette.Gribnau
beautiful !
blinkings
IMHO, very pretty.
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
SunriseGirl
wonderful close up
pat40
Beautiful plant
jayfar
Zoom is even more beautiful Andrea.
Hendesse
Wonderful details and colours!
anmes
bEAUTIFUL
jendellas
Beautiful!!
helanker
A very gorgeous orchid. No wonderyou wanted more of this :-)
auntietk
Glorious! I can see why you can't resist more. :P They're beautiful!
moochagoo
Very impressive close up and colors
kaward
Cracking close up shot! They are so bizarre when you get this close, all curves and wings around the naughty bits!
alanwilliams
natures pallette,beautifully captured
Faemike55
Very beautiful I guess you could say that five times very fast - But I'm not about to try...
Mark-David-Rogers
A beautiful flower and a fine capture, there are so many species of orchid and some of the rare varieties can be priceless.. A few that only appear in some remote parts of the world that people machete through to get at... those who are obsessed would move heaven and earth to own them and the trade can have a murky underground aspect to it.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Easy to fall for Orchids, they are so beautiful. And you captured this specimen well my friend.
MrsRatbag
Wow! I think this is the best orchid shot I've ever seen. Well done you!
Katraz
Lovely orchid , orchids are addictive.
danapommet
Exquisite capture of this orchard's bits - well worth a zoom - gorgeous colors and I like the "sugar" coated petals! Congratulations for this super photo making it in LWITG!!! :)
anahata.c
full size this is not only sensuous but almost speckled, caused by the multi-layered reflective surfaces on the petals. You caught that very delicately here, it's beautiful. The stamen section stands out in contrast, partly because of the light on the petals (high light), but also because of your composition and the shadow-play on it. It's beautiful. This is a sensual, beautiful flower capture Andrea. And your choice of stark black around it makes this beauty feel like it's on-portrait for us. Beautiful work all around. A genuine portrait.