David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Focus on the flowers of the miniature orchid Pleurothallis jaculifera (flower size 1,5 cm) in situ in Risaralda department, Colombia. Distribution: endemic from Colombia between 1900 and 2000 m asl. Picture with natural light, no flash.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Specklinia verlingii (thanks to Wiel Driessen for I.D., gracias a Wiel Driessen para la identificación)
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Octomeria affine chloidophylla, Napo, Ecuador
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Stelis sp. in situ (tamaño de cada flor 3 mm, size of each flower 3 mm), Valle del Cauca, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Stelis sp. (tamaño de las flores 4 mm) in situ en las montañas andinas, estado Mérida, Venezuela
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Dryadella sp. in situ, Quindio, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Dryadella sp. in situ, Quindio, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Scaphosepalum swertiifolium floreciendo in situ (Distribución: Colombia y Ecuador desde 600 hasta 2200 m snm, Risaralda, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
The magnificent big and pink variety of Scaphosepalum swertifolium flowering in the wild, Valle del Cauca department , Colombia. Distribution : Colombia, Ecuador y Peru from 600 to 2700 m asl.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Platystele consobrina (tamaño de la flor 5 mm), de Antioquia a 2400 m snm, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Platystele caudatisepala flowering in situ in Costa Rica (Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras ? , Nicaragua ? , Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador from 400 to 1400 m asl).
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Focus on the miniature flower of Platystele caudatisepala in situ in Costa Rica (Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras ? , Nicaragua ? , Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador from 400 to 1400 m asl).
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Brachionidium imperiale (distribución : Colombia y Ecuador desde 2000 hasta 2600m snm) in situ, Chocó, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
La hermosa Sobralia virginalis floreciendo in situ, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Distribución: Colombia y Perú alrededor de 1600 m snm
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Sobralia liliastrum (Distribución : Colombia, Ecuador ? , Perú, Bolivia, Venezuela, las Guyanas y Brasil desde 700 hasta 1400 m snm) in situ en la region de la Gran savana, estado Bolivar, Venezuela
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Sobralia violacea (Distribución: desde Costa Rica hasta Venezuela y hasta Bolivia) floreciendo in situ, región andina, Venezuela
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Enfoque sobre la flor de Chondroscaphe flaveola in situ en el piedemonte de los Andes, estado Barinas, Venezuela
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Huntleya citrina (exposicion Caliorquideas 2012), Cali, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Huntleya wallisii, one of the biggest and more spectacular orchid flower from the warm and super wet forests of the pacific region in Colombia and Ecuador between 50 and 1000 m asl ! In Venezuela, there are other smaller species that they call "starfish".
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Pescatoria (ex Bollea) coelestis, one of the more impressive orchids (and too collected) in situ in a cloud forest, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
An incredibly strongly colored variety of Pescatoria klabochorum (Distribution : Colombia and Ecuador from 700 to 1600 m asl) flowering in situ, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Big Epidendrum escobarianum plant that could grow in its natural habitat without human perturbation, having much more chance to survive to climate changes, and to reproduce itself thanks to the numerous flowers, that can be pollinated, than young plants.
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Telipogon semipictus in situ has been one of the best observations of an 11 days tour I guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts, Colombia. New species for me too ! Finding Telipogon is always a special moment, always growing in beautiful cold habitats
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
Colombia is the country with the greatest bird diversity in the world with around 1969 species already registered ! Here a male Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) during an 11 days tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca departments, Colombia
David Haelterman NatureguideColombia:
The Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus), "The Sun Messenger" for Coconuco indigenous. I have just been able to make my best pictures until now of the national bird of Colombia and Ecuador during an 11 days tour I just guided in Valle del Cauca and Cauca depts.
RonParsonsflowershots:
Cymbidium x gammieanum - Cindy Hill
RonParsonsflowershots:
Cymbidium dayanum - Napa Valley Orchids
RonParsonsflowershots:
Cymbidium insigne 'Cinnabar' - Anna Chai
RonParsonsflowershots:
Catasetum denticulatum 'Select #1' - Sunset Valley Orchids
RonParsonsflowershots:
Catasetum tigrinum 'SVO II' - Sunset Valley Orchids
