Nice soft lighting. Center is well focused. Background is pleasantly blurred (I be you have received comments that you should crop it out - I like it. I think it should have been more from above to fully meet the challenge. But good.
Lovely, soft, and the lighting is terrific. Even though you've got the veins sharp, It still looks just slightly out of focus for some reason. Still, high marks from me.
It's a very nice photo with nice colors. I am wondering how many comments you are getting on how it is not demonstrated by the photo that you have taken the shot "From Above"?
I particularly like this flower shot because of the way some of the background has been included. Whilst it's still not overly obvious that it's taken from a vantage point above, it does make it a little clearer as well sa adding a really interesting pattern and use of DOF.
I don't like the colour balance - seems overly orange throughout the image to me.
7, Kavey