interesting macro with all the details and the huge black background you didi a great job.

Beautiful shot - looks like a painting

Wow! Very good, Mikhail! Those details... beautiful.

Muy bonita esta fotografía macro (composición, luz, color). Felicidades Ana

Beautiful, nice framing and an ideal blackground.

Thanks Martine!

In hindsight, I should have separated the two flowers a bit more though. Oh well, next time...!

Wow, scaring... Looks like the Darth Vader of Garden Wars :)

Jolie prise, Joël !

wow, great! You almost want to reach out and touch it :)

Preciosa fotografía. Felicidades, Ana.

Beautiful shot. I like the angle, it makes me wonder what might be inside the flower.

Outstanding colour! Being nit picky, I thing the image could be improved by not centering the main subject. Put it off to one side and use your excellent DOF to blur the other side. But overall, a nice image mate.

I am a big fan of flower photos, but to me it is just missing something. Looking foward to seeing more. Mabye like scott said shooting it a different angle.

Nice macro. But background not attractive and didn't suite for this image!

I agree with Mikhail, the background is distracting, but the flower is lovely and the capture is very nicely done. A higher camera angle exposing the stamen would be more interesting and might have provided a more neutral background.

Seriously great minamilism, wonderful shot

Amazing ~ very zen! I love it.

Incredibly lovely!!!!!

Superhydrophobic!

Thomas - this is stunning. I would hang this on my wall. Wonderful color against an infinite dark background. Very professional looking and easily one of my favorites. Very nice work.

Nice different take on a common motif!! I like it!!

I agree, great shot. Would work very well in Reflections also!! What is the surface??

It's a black dinner plate. Not very even (which is why the reflection isn't 100% perfect).

Very cool shot.
Great job and i hope to see this featured.

@Beamer: thanks for pointing me to the reflections topic. I had overlooked it.

Beautiful work on a beautiful object ;-)