At Kew Gardens' Tropical Extravaganza:
When you go in to the heat and humidity of the greenhouse, the camera lens steams up. These were my first pictures inside; just a bit on the misty side. You're spared the full glare of those colours.
And what colours. The flowers were so bright, the crowds so dense, the heavy-duty camera equipment so intrusive, that it felt like the Disneyland Tropical Greenhouse Experience. Every year the display gets more garish, louder, more extreme. Colour intensity turned up to 11.There were recorded bird screechings and gaudy model parrots stuck in the branches. The only thing missing was attendants dressed up as giant orchids. Next year perhaps.
But there was the occasional island of classic beauty:
Mick Hartley 
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