Taken with Canon 100 2.8 macro lens in natural light. I don't think this will do too well, but I like the color and motion of this shot. Hopefully some others will too
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This has lovely lines and flow to it. You did a great job with the composition/crop, and of course the colors are so very appealing. Would make a beautiful print.
Maybe you should have named this blue beauty. That blue is amazing. Great job using the natural light. I like the aperature setting that you chose, as it draws attention to the blue and yellow part of the flower nicely, while also creating a nice background with the soft out of focus blue region of the picture. Well done!
I love the strong bokeh of the background, but I find the shallow DOF has rendered all but an area of about 50x50 pixels out of focus. I'd love to see much more of the foreground sharply.