We first encountered a bromeliad at Moonstone Gardens in Cambria CA. It was a Puya and had a most strange and attractive inflorescence. My wife Sauny, a marine biologist and English teacher at Cal Poly, and I started buying bromeliads in 1970. We bought, traded, lost some and grew seeds till we have the present collection of around 300 bromeliad species in over 30 genera. We have a few crosses, but we prefer species.  

   
Unfortunately it is not easy to keep name tags with the bromeliad plant. It is hard to re-establish the identity without some help. We have a number of books and they help. But ours are often not as nicely grown. So I have started to photograph them as they bloom. If it is large, I photograph the flower, then the inflorescence and finally the entire plant habit. I intend this as a means to identify the plants. If the bromeliad is small, one or two photos are enough. Ours are not ideal, perfect specimens, so they probably will look more like yours!  
nbsp;    I will deal only with bromeliad species. I have little to no interest in crosses although I do have some pretty ones I can't bring myself to throw away. The pictures use a lot of memory (about 200K), but I'm hoping many people will want to download them and print them and I wanted the detail to be there.