Rlc. Memoria Helen Brown 'Sweet Afton m. Splash'

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Two more nice pics captured this morning with some sun shining on the flowers.

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An ant doing photo-bombing hehehe

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The colour markings on the petals are actually not out-of-focus ------ even though the colour mix gives an out-of-focus impression.

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Some nice colours seen in this pic.

Zooming in close enough will reveal the 'white dot' sparkle effect seen in many cattleya flowers - when sun shines on the flower at particular times --- at the particular angles. Quite a nice effect.

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This pic is already in the 'Orchids in Bloom' section of OrchidBoard. But putting it here too, as it's important to leave the mark of 'the supervisor' here ----- one piece of ginger cat's hair --- held up by spider-silk maybe ----- mid-right-hand portion of the pic heheh.

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A nice personality in orchid circles (AOS member and current President of the Canadian Orchid Congress) - Dr Leslie Ee ----- recently mentioned (in an orchid forum) that the source/reason for the glitter or sparkles of various orchid flowers in sunlight is due to 'water structure within the cellular structure of the flowers'. Very nice information!!

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Some nice colour range on the left-hand-flower ----- thanks to some morning sunlight.

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Just adding a pic with a view from the other side as well.