Cool, very interesting picture. Looks like artwork. The color is very vibrant. How did you get the background like that?

Jen

You'll laugh.....

I had my mother standing on some stepladders and leaning right out to the side and holding an old black T-shirt behind where the bloom was without holding it too high that it cut off the light hitting the bloom from the other side.
I didn't have much time to concentrate and get better shots because she couldn't hold the position for long, lol.

Toni-Marie

I just love that color!

great shot!

Beautiful flower, but I don't think this is an ackermannii. The flower shape is different.

Pieter

It looks the same as the ackermannii hybrids posted in the epiforums 2006 bloom report thread by the epi growers. I've seen a photo of the Ackermannii species and, I agree, it looks different, but it does look the same as the photos referred to as Ackermannii hybrids in the epiforums.

I know it's not the species but it is probably a hybrid descending from ackermannii.

Toni-Marie