This is one of many verbena plants in my window box planter: taken with macro lens at shallow dof and very little sharpening to keep image soft...cropped, levels, curves, hue/saturation, light use of usm
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There's a tiny clip of another petal in the upper left corner that's nagging at me. Couple of hot pixels in the middle as well, but with Basic, hey, what can you do? Nicely done, and true to the challenge.
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping,i would have cropped a bit tighter the floweron the left is distracting Background good,
Technical: Focus, Exposure: good,
Appeal:lovely colour, Total Averaged Rating 6.