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posted: July 1st, 2006 |
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The photos on this page cover only June 4th; a day trip (alone) to Mt. Takao to take pictures of orchids. There was only one outing this month, due to weather and also the fact that Kazuya now has to work both Saturdays and Sundays. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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These 3 pictures are an Orchid - Cremastra appendiculata. The common Japanese name is "Saihai-ran" (ran = orchid). The English common name is Chinese Tulip. These were found at a relatively low elevation on Mt. Takao.
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Here are 2 more Cremastra appendiculata shots. It was a very cloudy day, so all 5 of these were taken with a flash.
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Here we have 3 shots of Dendrobium moniliforme Orchids. I used the camera/tripod/binoculars contraption which I built last year for this purpose. These flowers are high in the trees and the trees are BIG, so the flowers are a LONG ways away. If you don't know, or don't remember, what the "camera/tripod/binocluars" thing is, please see June 2005's
photos HERE. (Will open in new window.)
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Three more shots of Dendrobium moniliforme. The Japanese common name is "Sekkoku". I guess this species does not occur naturally in the USA because I have been unable to find an English common name.
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And --- 3 more shots. There were not as many flowers as last year, but it was still pretty dang amazing!
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Here are the final 3 shots. The final shot (#57) was taken with no binoculars or zooming - it's a planted one at the cable car station.
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Here are 2 collages of Dendrobium orchids. They are both the same except for the border on the first one (2nd one has no border on it). From the numbers in the title, you can find which pictures from above were used to make this collage. You can find a larger size JPG image
of the collage with the border HERE , it's 1.3 MB and it's 2,000 x 1,516 pixels! (Will open in new window.)
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This is a link to a separate web page showing a Relatively NEW photo of our DVD Collection, an AVI Movie of our Home Theater System and 9 photos of our new Sharp Aquos TV. You can see the new DVD Shelf here too.
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| April 1, 2006 DVD Collection, Movie of Home Theater System & New TV Pictures (new window) |
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