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Comment by MattO:
Welcome from the critique club. A touch late but here is your request.

First with the bud and the title you met the challenge. The photo scored fairly well but could have scored better IMHO based on a few slight changes. Composition is fairly good just a touch off on the rules of thirds but not so far off that it really hurts the shot. I'd liked to have seen the focal point closer to the intersecting rules of thirds in the upper left quadrant. I would also suggest opening the lens up just a touch more. Since we are focusing on the unopened Flora and its so far off to the left, my attention is brought more to the center flower which is also in focus. Stop the lens down to 2.8 or 3.2 move your focus point on the camera off to match the rules of third fill the frame and shoot.

Post processing tips Id suggest a brightening the photo just a touch and doing a curves and saturation change to it. Colors are a bit drab and dont pop. If you want to score well you need pop and wow. I've made a few changes to your photo as an example to what I mean. Please open them and view them side by side and see what you think. Overall I dont think you did too bad, met the challenge and you have a photo thats pleasing to the eye but could have done better with a few changes. Also you will find that a smaller inner border and wider outer border helps the photo stand out, I'd swap the sizes of the 2 borders and leave the colors as they are. Good luck in future challenges.

MattO

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Comment by klstover:
Oh such an awesome shot! Meets the challenge great and is a fantastic image on its own as well. Makes me smile. :-)

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Comment by Beautiful-Joe:
=( I was the only ten.
I seriously figured this would hit top ten or even top five. I'm really surprised.

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Comment by kotzie:
very sweet shot...I like the composition.

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Comment by CapeSail:
Nice DOF and framing.

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Comment by Ice-Tea-1983:
Ah, to you're a fanny-person ... I'm a leg-man, myself ... 7

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Comment by raish:
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two three now and I'm running late, sorry.

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Comment by Xilebo:
Oh dear! You made me laugh at this scenery! Deserves extra point for that :)

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Comment by HeiSch:
absolutely meets the challenge, what a beauty of a still life!

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Comment by Dona_k:
And I though the camera made my ass look big! lol