Too Suggestive?

Today I went up to the Volunteer Park Conservatory to take a few

photos and found this slipper orchid. When orchid were first being

collected by the Royal Conservatory, London in the late 1700's only

men were allowed to look at them for many years as they felt that the

flowers were too sexually suggestive for "fragile and pure women" to

gaze upon. Am I a peddler of smut?

: -Gerry

Beautiful. Makes me want to keep coming back to look at!

8's.

The crop was in camera, as I was shooting the orchid with a macro lens through a steel mesh with 2"x3" openings. Yes it is just an orchid (just a flower to me) until I read a book called "The Orchid Thief" and another called "Orchid Fever" btw, the only books that I've ever read about flowers. These people were (are) nuts. Murder, Scandal, Millions of dollars, Secrecy, Morality and Politics all over a flower.

Here's a link to the same image as posted on my website. (lighter)

http://geraldoar.com/flower orchid 1.htm