FILMING THE MOST ELUSIVE ORCHID

One of the things that I have loved about my real estate career is personally doing the photography of my listings and creating my own virtual tours with photographs of the interiors and exteriors. It is always a challenge to get just the right shot or angle highlighting that particular shot and making it into the perfect scene.

As a semi-professional photographer, (I say that because I have sold some of my non-real estate work,) I find it exhilarating and quite relaxing to just go out and shoot some of the spectacular settings that we have here in Southwest Florida. I sometimes find myself a bit jaded living here in Naples and tend to forget how really beautiful the surroundings truly are.

This week I’m privileged and excited to be invited to go out and shoot the rarest of Orchid species, the Ghost Orchid, which now is in bloom some 45 feet in the air growing on a 400 to 500 year old Bald Cypress Tree. It will be in bloom for only about two weeks and it is something that most orchid lovers will never ever see in their lifetime,because it is so rare and only found in a few places here in Southwest Florida.

It will be worth the long drive and the trek through the swamp to get to it!