Photographic Competition 2010

Below are the First Prize winning pictures from the 2010 Photographic Competition - to see a larger version of the picture just click your mouse on the individual 'thumbnail'. 

Due to the limits of screen resolution and file size, the images that you will see cannot do full justice to the clarity, colour depth and brilliance of the original pictures.

All pictures have been provided by HOS members, who retain the copyright to their pictures.

None of the pictures may be reproduced without the owner's permission.

 

Class 1:

 

'Orchidaceous Landscape'

(prints up to 7" x 5")

 

 

Gymnadenia conopsea

Tony Hughes

 

 

Class 2:

 

'Group of Plants'

(prints up to 7" x 5")

 

Orchis anatolica

David Pearce

 

Class 3:

 

'Whole Plant'

(prints up to 7" x 5")

 

Cypripedium calceolus

Patrick Marks

 

Class 4:=

 

'Close-up'

(prints up to 7" x 5")

 

 

Ophrys cornuta

Patrick Marks

 

Class 5:

 

'Orchidaceous Landscape'

(prints up to A4)

 

Anacamptis (Orchis) laxiflora

Photographed by Patrick Marks

Class 6:

 

'Group of Plants'

(prints up to A4)

 

Spiranthes spirales

Tom Turner

Class 7:=

 

Whole Plant'

(prints up to A4)

 

 

 

Anacamptis morio  

 

David Hughes

Class 7:=

 

'Whole Plant'

(prints up to A4)

 

 

 

Orchis ichnusae 

 

Tony Hughes

 

 

Class 8:

 

'Close-up'

(prints up to A4)

 

 

Orchis adenocheilae

 

John Spencer

 

Class 13:

 

Novice Class

(prints up to A4)

 

Orchis mascula

Jean Claessens

 

Class 14:

 

'Orchidaceous Landscape'

(digital image)

 

Gymnadenia conopsea

Tony Hughes

Class 15:

 

'Group of Plants'

(digital image)

 

Ophrys kotschyi

 David Pearce

 

Class 16:

 

'Whole Plant'

(digital image)

 

Serapias cordigera

Tony Hughes

Class 17:

 

'Close-up'

(digital image)

 

Dactylorhiza incarnata

Mike Gasson

Maren Talbot Trophy Winner

 

 

 

 

Serapias cordigera

Tony Hughes