Two Purple Orchids

Please Critique..

 

Thanks,

 

David

The fresh state of the flower of the flower is great, but I wonder if there could be better application of Color Theory here or a background choice. They seem to fight each a little { subject vs background }. If you were wanting a plain background maybe white would still be bright enough but would not over power the hot violet. White is more neutral but still bright, i think they might work better together. An odd thing though, I don't know if it is because I am sitting in the dark, but for the first minute or so i thought this background was dark brown and not black. The flowers color has a strong influence, or I am going blind.