One of many prize-winning orchids from the Greater Omaha Orchid Society annual show and sale at the mall.

I asked permission to photograph from both the Society president via e-mail, then
before bringing my camera into the mall, I asked mall security if it would be ok.
Photographing the orchids was fine, but it seemed that everything else was off limits.

The orchids were displayed so close to each other that it was difficult to get an uncluttered
background, so for this image, I reduced the lighting on the surrouding foliage by painting
on the layer mask of a Levels adjustment layer in Photoshop CS then copied the same layer mask
to a Saturation adjustment layer, using copy and paste of the alpha channel, to reduce the saturation.

Shot in RAW and converted with Pixmantec's RawShooter Essentials 2005.

Noise processed and sharpened with Noise Ninja.