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The 2016 AMAS Benefit Concert

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Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

Orchid Evenings at NYBG

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LGBT @ NYBG

The New York Botanical Garden does a fantastic job with the Orchid show every year. NYBG is a member of NGLCCNY and proud to partner with them and the Loft for the LGBT @ NYBG series—an initiative that hosts events throughout the year to celebrate the LGBT community. Stay tuned for upcoming events during Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and often fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 27,800 currently accepted species, distributed in about 880 genera.[2][3] The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species nearly equals the number of bony fishes and is more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family also encompasses about 6–11% of all seed plants.[4] The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis(1,000 species).

The family also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), Orchis (type genus), and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya. Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species into cultivation in the 19th century, horticulturists have produced more than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks speaks at the 9/11 Memorial

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Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

ISE Head Shot Day 2

ContactSheet-001 ISE Head Shot Day 2 - I spent another day down in the financial district of NYC shooting portraits of International Securities Exchange.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve visits the 9/11 Memorial

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Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

Bernard Cazeneuve (born June 2, 1963) is a French Socialist politician and current Minister of the Interior. Born in Senlis, Oise, Cazeneuve rose to prominence with his election as a deputy of the National Assembly representing the 5th constituency of Manche in 1997, and as mayor of Cherbourg-Octeville in 2001.

In 2012, he was appointed Minister of State for European Affairs in the first Ayrault Government, and in 2013 was named Minister of State for the Budget in the second Ayrault Government after the resignation of Jérôme Cahuzac. On April 2, 2014 he was appointed the 42nd Minister of the Interior in the First Valls Government, a role he retained on August 27, 2014 with the formation of the Second Valls Government.