Typical urbanite living in San Francisco.
Flickr is where I exhibit all of my non-orchid photos and a select subset of orchid photos. My two big interests are flowers/plants/orchids and graffiti/street art. I have a minor interest in skyscraper/urban scenes and food photography.
I have a big orchid/botanical travels photo site - www.orchidphotos.org for those who enjoy looking at flowers.
I've lived in Austin, Texas, grew up in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, and was born in Bangor, Maine.
Here is my partner's Flickr if you're curious.
The flashy GIFs and bad JPG avatars used to spam for other groups have finally gotten to me. No personal offense intended, but I now delete all comments with one of those spam images and I will no longer comment on a photo containing a group spam image. If you repeatedly comment on my photos using these annoyances, I will block you. Sorry, nothing personal.
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Countries I have visited:
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(Visiting Hong Kong makes all of China light up. China is on my list of places to visit, but as I was in Hong Kong before reunification with China, I really don't consider that I've really visited China proper. One day!)
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Groups (50)
- Pines 1529 photos, 407 members
- CANDY FACTORY - NYC 82 photos, 18 members
- Cymbidium species 224 photos, 16 members
- Coelogyne 517 photos, 25 members
- Orchids of Madagascar, Comoro Islands, Reunion, and Mauritius 158 photos, 42 members
- Economic Botany 947 photos, 72 members
- gray foliage - gray plants 323 photos, 33 members
- mayobaby 3 photos, 20 members
- Jewel Orchids 137 photos, 37 members
- Octomeria 65 photos, 16 members
- Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) 527 photos, 49 members
- RANUNCULACEAE — WILDFLOWERS ONLY!!!!! 554 photos, 101 members
- Orobanchaceae 1171 photos, 79 members
- Botanical Morphology and Anatomy 1803 photos, 152 members
- Bignoniaceae 695 photos, 52 members
- USF photography and photographers 891 photos, 33 members
- Lepanthes 415 photos, 17 members
- Market Street Railway 2149 photos, 184 members
- GAMA-GO Photo Royale 263 photos, 178 members
- Guide to California Wildflowers 3141 photos, 151 members
- Flickr Commons 491 photos, 1138 members
- Trillium appreciation 618 photos, 155 members
- Epidendrum 237 photos, 28 members
- Pacific Orchid Exposition 2009 297 photos, 13 members
- California Native Orchids 212 photos, 33 members
- Ask a Bishop Museum Scientist 543 photos, 245 members
- Catasetinae 818 photos, 63 members
- Field Guide: Australian Native Plants 5581 photos, 124 members
- Houses with Towers 3881 photos, 368 members
- Variegated Orchids 146 photos, 19 members
- Dendrobium Orchids, both species, hybrids and related genera 1383 photos, 58 members
- Myriapoda (Centipedes & Millipedes) 1213 photos, 404 members
- Tree appreciation 4028 photos, 215 members
- Pelargoniums 469 photos, 46 members
- West African Plants 203 photos, 17 members
- Urticaceae (stinging nettle family) 49 photos, 24 members
- Fragrant white flowers 192 photos, 20 members
- Fritillarias 150 photos, 48 members
- Melastomataceae 389 photos, 35 members
- Cucurbitaceae (melons and relatives) 88 photos, 24 members
- The Columbarium 515 photos, 30 members
- Phalaenopsis species and primary hybrids 571 photos, 57 members
- Angraecoid Orchids, mainly Angraecum and Aerangis 620 photos, 49 members
- Cattleya (Laeliinae) Orchids, Hybrids and Species 2242 photos, 113 members
- Leafless Orchids 279 photos, 83 members
- Botanic Climbers & Vines 672 photos, 183 members
- Annonaceae 456 photos, 49 members
- Night city 9396 photos, 572 members
- Friends Of Photoworks SF 3863 photos, 607 members
- Australian flowers - plants - trees 12127 photos, 957 members
Testimonials (5)
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Jhaan says:
"A Prince among orchid afficianados; an orchid "geek" of the highest order-do take a bow, Eric; AND one of the nicest people and first of the Flickr folks to come to my rescue on putting the scientific Latin-based names to my "photo"captured beauties, mostly orchids, carnivorous and flowering plants of the western highlands here in the Isthmus of Panama, of which I call home.
Eric has continued to delight me with his absolutely "drop-dead" gorgeous and extremely diverse collection of photos of his lovelies-all VERY well photographed, by the way.
If you love orchids, DO look to Eric's Flickr collection where you'll be led to his other website and resource list; his encyclopedic knowledge is essential to anyone wanting to venture deeper into the "rabbit's hole" of "Orchidom"; follow his lead and you're in for an exotic adventure ( ;~)>"10th October, 2006
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chrissie2003 says:
"I especially like it when Eric has attended an orchid show and we get to see the orchids. It is obviouse he derives a great deal of pleasure from photography, his photos are excellent.
Eric is a very much appreciated co-admin of the very popular FLOWERS group, with an astounding knowledge of plants : ).
Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos, your time and your knowledge.
Yours in friendship, Chrissie"10th June, 2006
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van swearingen says:
"Eric has an astonishing encyclopedic knowledge of nearly every orchid that exists and an exquisite eye for photographing them.
At times, the images he has captured are breathtaking and achingly beautiful.
The treat is that these images are also identified and tagged. Family, genera, species, and cultivar, often with a credit for the hybridizer and grower too. This makes Eric's photostream a very useful database in addition to being a joy to browse.
As co-moderator of several groups with Eric, I have to say I'm impressed with his savvy and diplomatic skills - I can get a little brusque...
Thank you Eric, for your dedication, taste, eloquence, and for sharing these beautiful images!"20th October, 2005
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larawkstah says:
"I heart my Eric...his view of the world inspires a second look at all that surrounds you."
28th August, 2005
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CharlieBrown8989 says:
"Although Eric is living in California. I never met him in person.
As a person born in Orchid Nation - Singapore. I have seen most Orchids collection in both Singapore Botanical Garden & Bandai Orchids Garden.
Eric Orchid collections is 2nd to none.
All his Orchids photos are superb!!
I encourage you to visit his site & learn from him."5th June, 2005
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