wow gorgeous orchids :drool: those are well bloomed catts! And nice display of phrags with parvisepalum paphs

Whoa that is one wild mass of blooms! Outstanding!:banana:

Thanks a lot for sharing!

Those masds look like Chinese lanterns. And I love the sea made of Cattleya blooms!

Here's a few more photos from the New York show taken during judging April 18, 2007

With photos this time I hope

Thanks for more photos! That miltonidium is stunning!

I like those Phragmipedium kovachii crosses in last photo.

Elle Ronis, the grower of Miltonia (syn. Miltoniopsis) Hajime Ono 'Maui Falls,' received a CCM/AOS (81 points) at last year's show. This plant was also was best in show. It was fully bloomed with 72 flowers on 13 inflorescences.
This year, Elle's plant had 48 open flowers and 48 buds on 20? inflorescences. The plant was pulled for AOS judging and might have received a higher award if all 96 flowers were open - timing is everything.
'Maui Falls' did get a special award again this year. BTW, this spectacular plant was grown under lights!

The kovachii hybrids were in Piping Rock's exhibit. Glen Decker is one of the only people in the US that has permission to work with kovachii.

I didn't realize they are kovachii hybrids. Very pretty, but looks similar to bessae hybrids. I was expecting something more outstanding.

One of the plants was besseae x kovachii and the other was Cape Sunset x kovachii, so they were both influenced by besseae. The flowers are larger and colored differently than typical besseae hybrids. You will see some diversification as other crosses outside the besseae group are bloomed.

The species kovachii flowers are HUGE - upwards of 18 cm ns. Perhaps its size is kovachii's most outstanding feature. I too expected larger flowers in the hybrids. The hybrids in the photos are all first-bloom seedlings. Phrag Haley Decker is kovachii x Saint Ouen (a besseae hybrid). The Phrag in the middle adds schlimii to the mix. Flower size on each of them is 13 to 15 cm NS. Time will tell if any of these new hybrids are better than their parents.

I saw this photo of kovachii x bessae cross AOS Message Board
I think it looks much better, or it is a better photo? :hmm

The Uncle Frank is very nice...I should get one to keep my Uncle Wang company :lol: :nod: :lol:

The AOS message board photo is better - less clutter in the background.
The flowers of the hybrids that I've seen personally or in photos are appealing but the rolling forward of the petals is distracting.

CRIKEY look at all those slippers !!!!!
:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

:lol: :nod: Tin, Oh, oh, you are getting to know me too well now..

Milt Hajime Ono "Maui Falls"
 

Sorry that the photo is fuzzy :(
( .. still trying to figure out how to work the camera .. ) :scratchhead:
This milt was beautiful! :drool:

Enjoy :biggrin:

More :photo: to come of all genera .. :banana:
I am creating an album :cheer:
and will post the link of the Orchid show :nod: :Tup:

Dorothy :)

Hmm... I like those rolling forward petals, they are so cute. :hmm

Orchid Show Photos
 

Hi ..
Here is my first little album of photos from the 27th International/GNYOS Orchid Show! :dance:

Yahoo! Photos - lovestheejeep's Photos - 27thInterntlOrchidShow2007PaphPhalPhrag

More to come! :nod::Tup: :banana:

Enjoy! :biggrin:

(Hey the banana isn't dancing! :( )

:coverlaugh:

Enjoying already! That black phalaenopsis is my dream. :drool: Thank's a lot for the photos!

You are very welcome ... !!!

That black phal is one of my best photos .. you can even see the reflection in the water droplets ...

I love the contrast of colors and how the purple bleeds into the white ...

Uploading Cattleyas as I type ..

Looks like you mastered that camera Dorothy. All the photos are very very nice....and the black.....ooooh

Here are the Catts photos from the show.

Yahoo! Photos - lovestheejeep's Photos - 27thInterntlOrchidShow2007CattleyaFamily

Click the slideshow icon above the Iwanagara Apple Blossom

and

Enjoy!

They are SO nice! 2 of the photos didn't open up for me, but the others were very pretty

Thanks!
 

These are only a few :photo: .. I have so many that are blurry but I will post them anyways ..
It took me a good chunk of time just quick fixing, shrinking and cropping the ones I have done already!
But it's all worth sharing what I had seen firsthand :biggrin: with everyone who couldn't attend the show or who missed the photographic opportunity while they were there!

Which photos? I can delete them and re-upload them.
Thanks for letting me know!

When I went back to get the names (one was Candy Tuff) anyway, they are all okay now. Must have been a temporary issue online...sorry for this error.

Ah good .. I am still uploading to that site so it could have been that!

Here are various genera photos!

Yahoo! Photos - lovestheejeep's Photos - 27thInterntlOrchidShow2007VariousGenera

To all you miltonia(opsis) lovers ... (there is a cymb in there with a Koi)

Yahoo! Photos - lovestheejeep's Photos - 27thInterntlOrchidShow2007MiltoniaFamily

Enjoy!

Again, very nice Dorothy. In your travels have you come across a Phal. Kaleidoscope? it's a candystripe, with yellow background with red viening.