Congrats on getting through unscathed on your first challenge. I gave you a 6 and personally I forward to seeing more of your entries. I keep and eye on all the active Pentax dslr users though :)
Thanks for your comments. I agree with a lot of them. I would have liked to have more of the tulip in focus, but the shots that did also showed the texture of the paper behind, which I didn't like. And frankly, I was too lazy to try again that night.
5 - Like the purple and yellow, but would like to have seen less stem and leaf/green and more detail in the tulip/the tulip and color of it, dominating and complementing the yellow more.
Lovely image. Until I looked it up, I didn't know gold was purple's compliment. The purple seems a bit magenta/red to my monitor Maybe an adjustement to put in a tad more blue might've made it more purple. Still, nicely done. 7
Nice job. My only real comment would be that I don't think the leaf adds anything to the challenge aspect of the photo. If it was for composition's sake, maybe you could have added another blossom instead.