Orchids, Family, Jamaican society

Last Christmas my wife received a total of four orchids as gifts. Yes, four, all at once. She keeps one at the office and the other three at home. Ive been meaning to do a shoot with them but kept putting it off (lazy). During my vacation earlier this year one of the orchids had two flowers in bloom, two buds that never opened and were dying, one young bud, and a flower that had died. All this on one orchid stem, which made for a very interesting subject. Kind of reminded me of a family tree. So I kept it simple, used black foam core as a background, with just one light source. This is what I came up with:

I'll be honest with myself here, I dont think I shot as much variety on this as I could have. I cam away from this feeling a little bit disappointed that I didnt do more with it, know what I mean?

The last two below were shot with the original family tree idea in mind, but during editing, for some reason a completed different interpretation formed in my mind, more of a political nature (weird, I know). Anyway, here they are:

 This one I called "Jamaica on politics". This is what happens when you have something with the potential to grow into something beautiful and exotic but has all the life sucked out of it by politics.

The next one is "Our Society":

For visitors to this blog that have never been to Jamaica, we have a fairly interesting society where very upper class areas tend to be very close to very low class areas, as seen above with the beautiful brightly coloured flowers and the almost dead unopened buds beside each other. The two areas, even though both are products of Jamaica (products of the same orchid stem) they operate almost totally independent of each other (that darkened area between the flowers and the dying buds).

You can tell me what you see.

(btw "Jamaica on politics" is one of the three that will be in the "Art Fresh exhibition" on February 24.)