photography as a second language

Oh, how I wish I could capture in a photograph what my eye sees in this combination of a zinnia flower with several celosia blossoms harvested from yesterday's arrangement. It's the deep magenta/black in the center of the zinnia that drove this combination. And it's all so pretty together, but I fear my camera isn't capturing it. What anyone can see, though, is the depth of the color in the center of those single-flowered zinnias most hybridizers don't value.