| pikevi,
To answer your questions about markings, markings will never be 100% symetrical on a flower. For example if you look closely at the small spots towards the centre of the Cymbidium Uluru flower above you'll see the spots are not a perfect, 100% mirror image of one another. You'll probably never see that in any flower. For that reason we do not expect to see symetry of that sort in markings/patterns. What we do expect to see though is balance. Going back to Cymb Uluru, the lip markings are very well balanced, one side does not look more heavily marked than the other. The markings on this flower are very balanced. Now that I have said that, I'll add that off the top of my head I can think of at least one exception to that: harlequin Phals. Harlequin Phals have very large erratic spots and I would not deduct points if the sopts on a arlequin Phal were not balanced.
When you look at the threads Fred posted for the ANOS and AOS, keep in mind they are different judging systems with different judging priorities.
Cheers!
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