{"id":1466,"date":"2009-10-26T22:51:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T22:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T19:51:31","slug":"photo-of-the-week-78-a-common-spotted-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2009\/10\/26\/photo-of-the-week-78-a-common-spotted-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 88 – A Common Spotted Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I chose my favourite butterfly shot of the year<\/a>, this week I’m choosing my favourite wild flower shot of the year. This was a really hard choice because I really got to grips with my Nikkor 55-200mm zoom lens this year, so there were a lot of decent flower shots to choose from. However, in the end, this shot won, in no small part because of how pretty a flower it is! I just love wild Orchids, and always have. When you stumble across one you feel like you’ve found a little treasure! In this case the Orchid is a Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii). I’m not sure the name really suits the flower, ‘common’ implies abundant to me, and that doesn’t seem to tally with reality.<\/p>\n

I managed to find a marshy field with quite a few of these beauties near Leixlip Louisa Bridge train station, and after much searching I found one that was blemish-free and standing out on its own enough to get a nice soft un-cluttered bokeh<\/a>. The light was also pretty much perfect as I shot it in the early evening.<\/p>\n

What I really love about this shot is that I had almost noting to do in post – it came out of the camera almost exactly like this! I Just did a few very minor tweaks in Aperture to get the crop just as I wanted it, and to pop the colour and the contrast just a little bit.<\/p>\n

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on Flickr<\/a> – Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n