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Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 18:14

Joined:	Wed Oct 14th, 2020
Location:	Australia
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We're very fortunate in Australia to have an abundance of native orchids. In metro Melbourne we have a good selection, however, one needs to travel further afield to country Victoria for more species, or better still to Western Australia for some truly magical orchids. If you're on Facebook and interested in seeing many of these orchids I would suggest joining a few of the Australian Native Orchid groups, or if birding is your thing there are also a number of good groups.

I will endeavor to post a number of my orchid finds over the coming weeks in this thread

To start this thread I thought you might be interested in seeing some of the environment they are found in. I recently purchased a Fuji X100V as a companion camera and these images in this first post including the closeups are taken with X100V. Normally I use a macro for the orchids, which you will get to see some of the results in future posts.

Due to Covid-19 we've been in strict lockdown for weeks. Only allowed to travel 5km from home, and only out for 1hr at a time. Luckily these restrictions are starting to ease.

These photos are taken at a local flora and fauna reserve approx. 1.5km from home. There are a few reserves like this one within my 5km limit.

#1 It was 14 DegC and overcast as I was heading up one of the main tracks