It is the color.They were taken immediately one after the other but from a slightly different angle that changed the lighting and changed the color.
I love this reminder that we are dependent on our senses, our senses in turn dependent on their inputs. The flower did not change between photos. I changed.
A simple metaphor for much of life.
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