beautiful rose. .. colors are a bit muted though. a bit sharper focus toward the center. nice composition with the petals forming almost concentric circles.
I have alot to say about this photo. I love the colour, and the focus is great. I would have cropped this photo a little differently however, and (hopefully you don't mind, and if you do, please say so and I will delete it all immediately) I saved this photo on my comp and cropped it as an example to show you what I mean.
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I think I took too much off the bottom, but you get the idea. It remove all the flaws of the flower (ragged edges and brown spots etc) and there is no background to distract the eye. So perhaps playing with the crops next time would yeild interesting results. (I can also see this as a tall thin shot with the center of the flower at the top).
Best of luck in the future!
Lovely color. I think this would be cool if it were blown up really big and made into a poster. Needs to be cropped IMO b/c the area outside the flower is just distracting from the cool lines inside.
Nice macro work. The centre of the flower is lovely - lots of contrast and shape, however the outer petals start to blend together. Focus is good and the cropping is fairly good.
a perfect example of how focus/cropping can make a picture amazing... take yours, looks great, but the photo I JUST voted on is the same peach rose, cropped way in and VERY creative... there is a huge diffrence in "snapshot" as yours almost posseses and one of "art" which the previous photo epitomizes...
"warming up to spring"... that's what i thought of, tho your self-chosen title is fair enough. very nice, tranquil, gentle on the eyes, beautifully shot.