Photo a day 3 plus more rhodies

First the photo of the day:

Who could resist that face:  “See what I have?  See?  See?”  I couldn’t.  I threw it for her.

Now more rhodies.  They are putting on such a display I keep getting distracted from whatever I’m doing when I glimpse them out of the corner of my eye or see them through a window.  Especially on a sunny day like yesterday.  I can’t quite capture the full effect, but these come close.

 

 

 

 

You can really see the pollinator-seduction in the structure and coloration in these close-ups.  The one long–what, stamen?–out in front, the shorter pistils(?), the one petal with the darker color, indicating “Yes, in here, right in here”.  But we don’t care about that, we just get to bask in the beauty of it all.

Now for my whine-a-day, about the difficulties of capturing accurate flower colors.  Note the color of the orangish azalea in the background, under the (I think it’s called) ambrosia bush.

 

 

That’s the closest I’ve come to the true color, and even there it’s a bit too red.

Anyway, here it is in close-up.

That’s way too red, but even with editing I can’t get it any closer to what I see.  Yes, it’s pretty, but I want accurate too.  Or–accurate is probably the wrong word; I’m not sure there is a word for “accurately simulates human color vision”, but that’s what I want.

I know pollinators–insects especially, but I believe birds too–see very differently from us, and that flowers correspondingly show off for them.  I wonder if that’s related to how difficult it is for cameras to capture accurate-to-me flower colors.