These beautiful orchids were taken on a morning walk with Ingrid and Damon, on their and my sisters property in Esperance. After photographing them for a month, I was in a very different mental space with them. Today they are my favourites, this unfortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, my mind keeps changing…
I have been having lots of trouble with my lightroom catalogue. I had to re do it from scratch. It took months of sorting out. One of the problems is that I have such a huge volume of work, and I had attached a preset to nearly ever image. So to alleviate this in the future I have stopped adding the monochrome preset on import. This has left me with seeing my work profusely in colour… So you can expect to see a lot of colour work coming out in the newsletter a lot.
These spider orchids seem to dance to me.
The Head On book fair was a bit of a washout. But we did sell a few back issues of Len’s Journal and one of my handmade books. It so lovely when famous photographers purchase your work. That is so humbling. They also were able to describe how quiet our beautiful journal is so accurately, when measured against our intention. Made me feel so warm and fuzzy.
Caladenia longicauda subsp. crassa – Esperance white spider orchid
Photograph and text copyright © Len Metcalf 2026
Caladenia longicauda subsp. crassa – Esperance white spider orchid
Caladenia longicauda subsp. crassa – Esperance white spider orchid
Caladenia longicauda subsp. crassa – Esperance white spider orchid
