My orchid photos + 2 fish.
 

I love photography. I use to take lots of photo of my fish but they are old news now. I must say photographing Plants is a lot easier then fish. Photography has been a hobby of mine for years. I have gotten into Flash photography more this year. It has open up a whole new world for me. I don't what too me so long to get a nice flash.

Anyways. Here are some orchids I did photo shoots with. HAHA orchid photo shoots.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8602/...d822e85a74.jpgBigYellow3 by snowflake311, on Flickr

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8649/...2621ba0e24.jpgTolumnia Genting Pink Lady1 by snowflake311, on Flickr

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7544/...5ee55e2693.jpgWhiteOrcidLIGHT by snowflake311, on Flickr

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8577/...4e8180c5c9.jpgYellowFrekPhal by snowflake311, on Flickr

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7492/...9ed5786603.jpgZygonisia by snowflake311, on Flickr

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2931/...58fa2d2756.jpgpurpleOrcidNice by snowflake311, on Flickr

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8596/...9d657b667e.jpgBea Mar Howards Dream2 by snowflake311, on Flickr



And just one Photo of my old Betta fish.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3684/...1248a4ca27.jpgAwesomeBetta by snowflake311, on Flickr

One of my Angelfish in my planted tank.
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2944/...e3e52bc6a5.jpgSmokyBlue by snowflake311, on Flickr

Little boys love Orchids too.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5547/...074efd021a.jpgtimgreenflower by snowflake311, on Flickr

What kind of fish?! Sorry... I grew up in a house full of fish tanks. I would be full of happiness if I could live in a house filled with aquariums of fish and orchids.
I knew so much about different fish names that Uncle Bills told me I should work their when I was in middle school (of course they meant when I was old enough.)
I had both saltwater and freshwater. My favorites are catfish (no... Not to eat..) and also cichlids! I had both South American cichlids, and African cichlids, Different tanks.
In salt water, I love trigger fish, angel fish, eels, tangs, blenny+goby, clownfish and some others.
I never had the patients to take pictures of moving fish.. At least not for long.

Oh yeah, nice orchids and fishies btw :D

I bred betta fish for a little tiny bit. I have been keeping South american Cichlids for some time now. I have 100Gal tank with 4 6" Silver dollars, 8" Uaru, 7" pictus Cat, and a delhezi bichir. My Uaru is over 4 years old. I have kept many other cichlids. I have a 80 Gal planted tank that use to have discus years ago. Now I switched to Angel fish.
Here are my tanks.

I use to keep Fresh water Shrimp too Tiger Shrimp and Cherry shrimp.

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...psa4086670.jpg

My 100Gal a few years ago.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...lbigplants.jpg

If you made a coffee table book,I'd buy it!

Nice fish and setups! :)
Excuse me if I make an error.. It has been years since I was involved with fish and such ;)
I don't blame you about the discus switch! I wasn't allow to have any. (Both expensive and probably too fussy for me to take care of.) I had an angelfish tank. There was some calico ones, striped ones, and some nice black lace angels.

I had Oscars, several small Jack Dempsey, a red devil, a couple different severums. Severums were the closest thing I could get that looked like discus ;)
I had a piranha tank. 30-50 gal long? I had 3 at one point.

African cichlids..I had many different types. I had several frontosa (bump heads), peacock cichlids, some typical ones, brichardi and we even bred yellow vertically striped ones. I think they were from Lake Victoria.

Catfish.. So many..
Plecos: royal, zebra, clown, vampire, gold nugget, green & blue phantoms, snowball, bristlenose types.. And more I don't remember.
Synodontis- I had many of these, corydoras
I had a 125 or a 150 gal tank with a relatively small redtail catfish. I even had a baby shovel nose redtail hybrid in another tank. Shovel noses and redtails are huge pigs. It's fun to watch them eat!
*Of course I didn't have all of these at the same time. ;)

Very nice pictures and tank. You are very good.
When I was younger, I had many different types of fish but I only have the one goldfish now (will be getting a second one) in a twenty-gallon tub water garden. I came to love goldfish when I had the pond. :)

When people mention hybridizing orchids, I think of little pots of orchids...all over the house, then the fun of finding homes for hundreds of little orchids. I am guessing you understand since you bred Bettas. Those hundreds of gallon jars.... Once was enough for me. :|

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To clarify, I just had the easy, common fish. Guppies, swordfish, mollies, etc.
Then the Betta fish (in tanks) and goldfish (we had a pond) when the kids were little and, now, just goldfish (usually two but we lost one last week).

Very nice!

My favotites are catfish and biota!

Really gorgeous photos! Especially love the backlit speckled Phal, and the betta fish!

Really lovely pictures!