Orchid photographs by Gary Yong Gee

These pages were last updated in October 2009.

I have been photographing species orchids for over 25 years and have more than 30,000 colour slides and around 20,000 digital images.  I have also been writing a regular monthly article for the Orchid Species Bulletin published by the Orchid Species Society that is based in Brisbane, Queensland for over 20 years. My article normally comments on the plants displayed at their meetings. This has also resulted in my giving many talks to orchid societies and others over the years, and a selection of them is listed on my Talks page.

If you want to see some of my photos go to my Articles page and click on the links, where you will find some photos of various orchids and the articles I wrote about them. You could also join the Orchid Species Society whose bulletin each month contains a long article of mine and about 15 of my colour photographs.

Some of my photographs are of displays at various orchid conferences, including each of the last eight World Orchid Conferences (Tokyo, Auckland, Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro, Vancouver, Kuala Lumpur, Dijon and Miami). I also have over 250 orchids photographed in 3 dimensions (in other words two slides which give a 3-dimensional image when viewed together).

Nearly 3,000 of the slides have been scanned as digital images, and together with the digital photos they comprise around 3,500 species in over 550 genera, and the list is growing.  A full list of genera for which I have digital images is on my digital images page. Many of my photos have appeared in books and magazines and were used on the Orchidopedia CDrom which Greg Steenbeeke and I produced some years ago (which is now no longer available). 

I am happy to come and give a talk to an orchid society using my photos for illustration purposes. But be aware that I am based in Brisbane, Australia, so you may have to pay fares for overseas trips! I should also point out this is only a hobby (some might say an obsession!) so I am not a professional photographer and fit all this, and growing orchids in my orchid house, in between part time work and having a life!

On my links page you will find links to a number of sites, particularly in Australia and New Zealand, which have information about species orchids, as well as some conferences and other sites with orchid species photographs.

Please come back again soon!

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