Hi Jim
Happy Christmas! Bet you were pretty excited about the D70!
In am usually the first to rip into an image so here goes - to me the shot isn't all that special. In all honestly this is a pretty common location, angle and subject that most people tend to shoot.
When I give my little sister my camera, she always goes out into the garden and fires off shots of flowers - I think because they are colorful and pretty.
If you had taken it in manual mode then kudos and well done for the exposure, although you didn't so no pints there as getting a bad exposure with the d70 is harder to do than not :D
Ways to make th image better would be to have some more detail in the background, or a closer crop in on the flower (at the moment there is a lot of mucky old green space around the flower)
Alternatively, to be more original try getting low and dirty on the floor and shooting from above thus making the flower more dimensional and dramatic.
Or one could use the bright blue sky as the background, further isolating the flower and forcing a nice blue / orange combination - a strong and bold statement.
Or you could have picked up the flower and put it in your sister, wife, mothers hair and shot it there.
Or used it as a prob and got your family cat or dog to smell it.
Just examples of something slightly different to try, which I personally feel is the key to good shot making.
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