I had been asked to do a gallery of photos for the North American Orchid Conservation Center's website for 2020. The original plan was a gallery featuring the native orchids of the Olympic Peninsula since the annual native orchid conference was to be held there in 2020. That conference had to be cancelled because of the covid crisis. I was then asked to do a gallery, also featuring the orchids of the Olympic Peninsula, but titled, "What We Missed." The gallery was duly published and is now on the website of NAOCC at this address: https://northamericanorchidcenter.org/featured-olympic-peninsula-what-we-missed/. The photo at the head of this brief post is also on that website and is of myself photographing Cypripedium montanum, the Mountain Lady's Slipper, in Blewett Pass, Washington. The other photos are the photos featured in the gallery.
Calyso bulbosa var. occidentalis
Epipactis gigantea
Platanthera dilatata var. dilatata
Platanthera x estesii (a natural hybird of P. dilatata and P. stricta)
Piperia (Platanthera) unalascensis in situ