Is this bee balm? I had a red one I loved as did the bumblebees. Very nice picture although there is a lot of competition between the two closest blooms for being the focal point.
Flowers will always be great subjects for photography. I believe yours was taken in overcast or shaded conditions and that is always best for flowers. I have some suggestions for improvement. I might choose a specific flower as the main subject for my composition and use framing and depth of field to highlight it. I would saturate the colors and increase contrast to make the flowers really stand out more. A shallower depth of field would work nicely for you with this image. Sometimes I even apply sharpening just to the main flower to highlight it more. Though this is not exactly like your situation here I have an example of some of these thoughts with images of the same type flower you can see here:
//www.pbase.com/image/27005610 or
//www.pbase.com/image/27005611
The colour on this seems very cool/blue-ish... a little warming would do a lot for this photo, I think. It might also look a bit better if it the three main flowers were more centered (or more off center).
I gave this a four. The colors seems drab and the composition isn't particularly interesting. I can see what attracted you to the flowers but it doesn't look like much time or thought was put into framing (or lighting) them to show them at their best.
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