P32_766

Ballerina orchid (Brassia lawrenceana)
The flowers of the Brassia orchid form two lines along the tassel, presenting themselves in an orderly and harmonious way. The beauty of its shape arouses admiration. With long and delicate petals, it is sometimes called a spider orchid, with a species classified as Brassia arachnoidea.
However, I dare to rebaptize this charismatic seductiveness as ‘ballerina’ because, in my opinion, it has everything to do with it. Notice the arms crossed above the head and the legs, as if standing on tiptoe.
Who drew you, dancer? The High Galactic Council of Architects of the Worlds.
I present this series of photographs as an essay. The cover photo, as explained in the metadata, has been reshaped from vertical to horizontal format. It is certainly an interesting image to be used in the layout of covers with appropriate spaces to insert titles, subtitles and concise messages. Thus, the stock photographer maintains ready-to-use images in their collections that the media market may require in certain circumstances.

P32_766 – Leonide Principe
Camera Nikon F5 with Micro Nikkor lens 60mm f2.8 – Diapositive Film Fujichrome Velvia 50 – Scanner: Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED – Originally vertical. I changed the layout to horizontal
Digitised from a positive on film
Original file size: 3591px x 5316px
Location Taken: Anavilhanas archipelago (Novo Airão – Amazonas Brazil)
Date Taken: 1997
Collection: Orchids – Persons shown: none
Keywords:
Anavilhanas, Novo Airão, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America, Brassia lawrenceana, orquídeas, orchids, flores, bloom, blooming, blossom, flowers, FLORA, plantas, plants, epífitas, epiphyte
EN1 Ballerina orchid P32_766
PT1 Orquídea dançarina P32_766
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D25_4005v2

Two ballerine (Brassia lawrenceana)
The main working norm of the archival photographer is that when a client contacts you to request an image or series of images, the photograph or photographs are already on file. It was rarely necessary to produce something and when it did it was not just to fill the customer need but to supply the gap. For this to happen, the photographic journey is always guided by this standard. If I go to a certain reserve to photograph a species of orchid and circumstances give me a couple of macaws in the fiery sky of the late afternoon, I will ask permission for a moment to my beautiful orchid and I will return my lens to the sky, as if that were the purpose of my trip. I will always be drawn to any subject that is relevant to the other’s images.
So the essence of the archival photographer comes to the fore: I’m not working on a client’s request, I’m constantly working on the construction of the archive. Even if I have a specific job to do, it’s always clear that the main objective is to increase the variety of the file.

D25_4005 – Leonide Principe
Equipment: NIKON D7000 with lens 60.0 mm f/2.8 set at 60 mm – Exposition: ISO: 400 – Aperture: 36 – Shutter: 1/250 – Program: Manual – Exp. Comp.: 0.0,
Original digital capture of a real life scene –
Original file size: 3280px x 4948px
Location: Anavilhanas archipelago (Novo Airão – Amazonas Brazil)
Date: February 3, 2013 – Time: 12:05:49 PM
Collection: Orchids – Persons shown: none
Keywords:
Anavilhanas, Novo Airão, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America, Brassia lawrenceana, orquídeas, orchids, flores, bloom, blooming, blossom, flowers, FLORA, plantas, plants, epífitas, epiphyte
EN2 Two ballerina D25_4005
PT2 Duas dançarinas D25_4005
© – Leonide Principe, all right reserved
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P32_765

Ballerine floating in the air (Brassia lawrenceana)
But the greatest satisfaction as an archival photographer is when I work for myself. When I’m my client, I’m the best client possible: from the moment of the photograph, the ideas are already developing and fitting one inside the other. So was this long journey in the treetops in search of the Aerial Plants: the photographs were produced within possible layouts. I know that anyone who is a designer will understand this very well. I also know, and I’m sorry for that, I’m sorry that our culture, organized around productivity and profit, always relegates creativity and art to second place. But this is just a small phase of humanity’s civilizing process.
What is right and normal is that every human being has the right to exercise their creativity without conditions, without the money of the economic power controlling the process. Sooner or not so late it will be.

P32_765 – Leonide Principe
Camera Nikon F5 with Micro Nikkor lens 60mm f2.8 – Diapositive Film Fujichrome Velvia 50 – Scanner: Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED –
Digitised from a positive on film
Original file size: 3591px x 5316px
Location Taken: Anavilhanas archipelago (Novo Airão – Amazonas Brazil)
Date Taken: 1997
Collection: Orchids – Persons shown: none
Keywords:
Anavilhanas, Novo Airão, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America, Brassia lawrenceana, orquídeas, orchids, flores, bloom, blooming, blossom, flowers, FLORA, plantas, plants, epífitas, epiphyte
EN3 Dancers floating in the air P32_765
PT3 Dançarinas flutuando no ar P32_765
© – Leonide Principe, all right reserved
www.leonideprincipe.site