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Post by Flytrap on May 4, 2006 1:16:25 GMT -5
Hi folks... I just got my new scanner, and am going through my old box of photos and slides of CPs I've been storing away for quite awhile. I'll start with a few pics here of some Nepenthes taken by myself and Joseph Yeo of Singapore. Joseph is a respected guru of Neps over in Singapore and leads one of the Orchid discussion groups on the Singapore forums. The first few photos here are N. villosa and N. rajah - from Mt. Kinabalu: Villosas are very very slow growers. I had a few at home as seedlings, but I've only one left as one of them dried up when I was away last winter. I'll take some photos of him (her?) and post them here soon. The following photos are of rajah. Again, another slowwww grower. Both these Neps love cool nights and misty humid days. The following images are of N. burbidgeae, one of my most favourite Nepenthes! Oh...it's such a beauty!!! Photos of burbidgeae never gives it justice, you have to really hold one in your hands to appreciate the transluscent porcelain quality of the pitcher. The final images show a real wonderful variant of N x hookeriana - it had leopard/tiger striped fringes and ruby peristomes. The close up of the entire plant is an image some of you may be familiar with -as it has been posted on the net for over a decade. The other image is a photo I took of my friends - Dr. Wong C. Lum and Dr. Tan Wee Kiat (both contributing authors to the guidebook "Carnivorous plants of Singapore" photographing this beautiful Nx hookeriana. Note the very exposed site location, off a highway ! Also note the scrambling N. gracilis all over the hillside. Dr. Tan also wrote the children's book "Jack and the Carnivorous plant" (the 'Jack' refers to ampullaria 'jack', named after Dr. William Jack, who together with Sir Stamford Raffles, studied the flora and fauna of Malaysia and Singapore) Apologies for all the annoying watermarks, but I found our images on commercial CP sites without our permission... I'll post more photos as time permits.
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Post by kenboorman on May 4, 2006 21:44:22 GMT -5
Very interesting to see the plants "in the wild" - keep them coming please Ken
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Post by martin on May 6, 2006 12:02:46 GMT -5
You are very fortunate to have climbed Mt. Kinabalu! Wondersfull pictures of rare species!
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Post by Flytrap on May 21, 2006 11:01:44 GMT -5
I can't remember which thread we had on this forum about a nepenthes plant with candy cane striped like peristome. I had suggested that the plant may have had xhookeriana parentage. I know that a lot of neps have this striped peristome, but I recall from some literature that a lot of early Victorian hybrids had a bit of the xhookeriana in the plant's heritage. Anyways, here are some photos of the rare upper pitchers of xhookeriana plants I took awhile ago on Gunung Palua, Malaysia. The natural hybrid (approx. 9m tall) was growing off a trail, and it shows this "candy cane striped" peristome quite nicely.
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Post by Flytrap on Sept 27, 2006 18:07:48 GMT -5
I've got some more new pics of Neps in the wild.
Not many of you knew this, but I just recently returned back home to the west coast... back from waltzing through Nep country with plenty 'o bug bites to boot. I'll post some pics soon.
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Post by Flytrap on Oct 3, 2006 11:36:36 GMT -5
The biggest pain I find is loading up pics on some of these forums... call me lazy, but when you really get down and think about it ... it's quite a process. I've got a few GB of photos...picked out the ones I think are great pics...then I have to try and load it up onto a photo host site - and generally, the photo host site (like flikr) limits the size of your images. So... I have to manually open up every pic in photoshop, reduce the image down to less than 5% of it's original size ... save out ...upload each image individually onto the picture host web site, then again, individually, cut and paste each URL onto the feedback message of the forum. Very tedious. So is there an easier way! ? So here are only a few pics of some neat neps I just saw out in the wild. First, a natural hybrid of N gracilis x rafflesiana... and a female one at that: and here's another xhookeriana - a natural hybrid between two of my more favourite neps : N. ampullaria and N. rafflesiana: I've got some more pics to load up, but I've got to better spend my time readying my nep house ready for old man winter ...
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Post by mabudon on Oct 3, 2006 16:25:09 GMT -5
MAn, looking at this thread makes me dizzy almost, pratically every single pic is beyond description, so thanks much for posting them!!
as for easy uploading of pics- you could do a batch conversion in Photoshop or something, not too difficult, that would get all the images "treated" the same way, then you could upload multiple of them at once to a gallery on something like Google images?? I dunno, but if you want to put a horde of pics up, that might do ya... and even at a slower pace, the pics are worth the wait so whatever you decide, KEEP POSTING them!!
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Post by lloyd on Oct 3, 2006 21:24:28 GMT -5
The next best thing to being there and without the bug bites.
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Post by Flytrap on Oct 10, 2007 18:16:32 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that when I first posted this thread, I had collected some seeds from some of the low growing ampullaria plants. When I sowed them back at home (Canada), the amp seeds turned out to be x hookerianas! Well, that was a long time ago. The hundred + seedlings lasted about 3 years, where upon 90% perished due to neglect, and the survivors were traded away. I am now left with only two x hookerianas from this original batch of seeds. The plants now are very large, and last year, one of them went into upper pitcher mode for the first time. Really pretty pitchers. This hookeriana has also sprouted two small basal shoots! So I am really excited. Sort of like a grandpa looking at his grandchildren. So I'll trim one basal shoot aside. I think I may have promised one to Rick H awhile back. (did I hear a scream coming from Ontario?) I would have shot a few pics, but heck, I want to win that photo contest so I can win back some seeds that I collected from my plants
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Post by vraev on Oct 10, 2007 18:19:25 GMT -5
nicee... BTW....david...the baby ramispina that I bought from you has done something COOOL. Its going to be in the photo contest. I guess I can attest that to the bical as well. Personally I think I have found my NICHE! I am a highlander and I love highlanders. Lowlanders are cool...but well....apart from a few..i am not too fussy about them. Highlanders......hamahama!
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Post by Rick Hillier on Oct 10, 2007 18:59:16 GMT -5
Flytrap... I just noticed your observation about reducing photo sizes for posting on photobucket, etc. If you to the Windows XP "Powertoys" at: www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspxyou will find a utility called "Image Resizer" that will resize your images from within Windows Explorer. It makes that process effortless. I usually take all of the photos that I intend to upload and copy them to a temp folder and then use resizer in "bulk" mode (by selecting all of the photos). There is an advanced option that will tell it to resize the originals (you want this because they're copies in a temp folder) so you don't wind up with copies in that folder. Let 'er rip and within seconds, the pain-in-the-butt job is done. Hope this helps anyone who might be interested. This might be a good sticky to put in the photos section too, but I'll leave that up to our able admins. >>> Rick <<<
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Post by Flytrap on Oct 10, 2007 20:42:46 GMT -5
I'm on a Mac. "XP" is a dirty word around here There is another program for Macs... but the issue now is to upload entire folders, instead of individual pics onto photobucket. It's really painful to open up dialogue boxes... one after another ... photobucket is a bucket of pain.
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Post by vraev on Oct 10, 2007 20:52:01 GMT -5
D...do u use rogers internet? then you should have rogers yahoo account. Register to flickr with that account. You will be PRO account. that is what mine is. So I upload all my pics there. No resoltuion limit...though I just make it 800 600 myself.
then download flickr uploader....drag and drop pics in there...and u are good to go.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Oct 11, 2007 7:19:57 GMT -5
Oops... sorry about that, David. I guess that as a PC user/developer from way back (I started on the IBM PC - Serial Number 00000139), I forgot that there just might be other brands out there >>> Rick <<<
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Post by Flytrap on Oct 11, 2007 11:38:50 GMT -5
I started on an IBM PC XT. Then got hooked onto a Xenix O/S running graphics software. I guess the Mac won my heart over the years... thanks for your thoughts.
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