This Orchid (Dendrobium spectabile) is taken from a Photo Essay I submitted to JPG Online (March 2009) titled: An Orchid Only A Mother Can Love. This is one of two images featured in the August Edition of ORCHIDS, the Monthly Bulletin of the American Orchids Society (AOS). This 'Alien Looking' Orchid is a native plant of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The internationally acclaimed AOS is more than just a flower club. Throughout its 85-year history the American Orchid Society, in keeping with its vision and mission, has strived to bring its members timely and state-of-the-art orchid information, support basic and applied research in orchids, and monitor and support conservation effort both here in North America as well as throughout the World. To have one’s photograph published in this most prestigious Journal is, indeed, an honor second to none for a Flower Photographer.