I thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed your comment, Patricia, and thank you for taking the time with your answer. BTW, as a youth, my folks took my brother and me to visit Logees. I still remember the floral fragrances when the door was opened. That's a keeper of a memory. Nice know you experienced it too.
Indeed, my 40+ year career as a microbiologist and microscopist often influences the way I approach my current-day photography, which sometimes ends up being too 'clinical', a term David appropriately used. That said, I have recently spent a lot of time experimenting with light and lighting, and this was another of those experiments. It was the first where I chose a single diffused, gridded striplight angled about 45 degrees above and off camera left, with a white foamboard reflector on camera right. I wanted to hear what others thought about the lighting, and your reply is most helpful in getting me to think more about refining my setup. So, more lighting experiments are definitely going to happen.
Luckily for me, this particular orchid's flower should be around for some time to come, affording me more opportunities to photograph it. I hope to post some more images using different lighting arrangements in the not too distant future. (Maybe even using my 200 mm, if I can manage it in the confined space of my basement.)
Thanks again, Patricia and David, for your advice. - Bob