Nice colors and detail on the rose. Lighting seems a little bit off to me...not sure how...but there's a bit of a halo around the rose. Perhaps if it were lit more from the back? I'm no good at lighting stuffs. I like the composition of the shot quite a bit.
The simple and elegant rose............... Nice detailing and the rich red is quite pretty. This is an effective use of negative space. Gives the rose more pow!
Very nice I think you could have cropped just a bit from the bottom and it would have not pulled my eye from the subject as much ... to me the empty space here is non productive.
I counted 70 flower shots (not counting the ones with bugs) in this challenge. This one I counted lower because it appears maybe oversharpened. Sharpening can cause that while halo around your subject and this one is rather thick. The rose itself is pretty, however