orchid – Fraggle's Otherverse

Day 313

November 9, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, FujiX-T2, Mucking about, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, crystal ball, day313, distortion, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, orchid, Photography, refraction16 Comments

At last it stopped raining, at least until Monday 🙂 so Sophie and I are off out tomorrow to visit Tynemouth Priory, and go to the market there, always good for photography and buying things 🙂 . Today has been frustrating and annoying, the sunday challenge theme is ‘distortion’ this week, and so I got out the crystal balls and spent ages trying stuff out but nothing I was happy with. After doing a month of it back in 2016 you’d think it’d be easy for me, but it wasn’t. So a last resort, I managed one of the orchids this evening. It will have to do. Sigh.

Day 225

August 13, 2019August 13, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, FujiX-T2, nature, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, august 2019, Black&white, day225, flowers, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, orchid12 Comments

I bought this orchid to photograph back on day 42, and photographed it then when it only had a couple of flowers on it. 187 days later today, the last flower has opened. It has been lush to watch it grow to magnificence, my others don’t really compare I’m afraid. In a few days time the first of its flowers will start to perish, and one by one they’ll all drop off. I wanted to take a shot of it in full magnifico mode before that happens, so here it is.

Day 214

August 2, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, FujiX-T2, nature, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day214, flowers, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, Helios 44-2 58, orchid13 Comments

Orchids are so cool.

Day 176

June 25, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, Fuji X100F, nature, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day176, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, June2019, orchid, Photography12 Comments

I’m having a new Orchid experience. Usually, I buy an orchid, look after it, it flowers for about 3 months, the flowers drop off and then that’s it. On one occasion one of them flowered again after an 18 month rest, but mostly they don’t. I give them 3 years and figure if they haven’t re-flowered by then they never will, then consign them to compost and get a replacement. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong but am buggered if I know what. One of my Orchids though has confounded this by flowering again when it hasn’t stopped flowering the first time! My white orchid has had 4 flowers on it for a couple of months which are still going strong, but I noticed this week it’s grown a new branch with buds on it right next to one of the flowers. They are strange creatures.

Also, thanks to everyone enquiring about my health, I am much improved and felt loads better today! Yipee!

Day 161

June 10, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Fuji X100F, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day161, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, orchid12 Comments

Day 141

May 21, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, Flowers, FujiX-T2, macro, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day141, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, may2019, orchid, Photography12 Comments

Still playing with the new Orchid 🙂

Day 140

May 20, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, Fuji X100F, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day140, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, may2019, orchid, Photography17 Comments

Got a new orchid to play with. At least until I kill it.

Day 119

April 29, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Fuji X100F, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day119, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, orchid, Photography, sunshine14 Comments

There must always be orchids. Caught mine communing with the sun.

Day 42

February 11, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, FujiX-T2, PhotographyTagged 365, Black&white, day42, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, macro, orchid19 Comments

I love growing Orchids. I have killed a fair few in my time, but the latest ones I’ve had for a couple of years or so now. Most of them lost all their flowers and have lain dormant for 18 months, but about 6 months ago 2 of them started to grow new stems. They are so slow!! They eventually got a few flower buds on them, though not many, and have done nothing else for weeks. But this evening one of the buds has started to open up, such excitement!