"Queen of the Night"
I sat out in the dark around midnight waiting for this bloom
to open, gave up and went to bed with the plan to look again
in an hour...BUT I fell asleep and woke at 8 a.m...and thought
missed it again. What a surprise to find it still open
in the daylight hours! Consequently I've taken heaps of
photos now with 2 different lens... they're waiting for me to process.

Here's a couple in colour.


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