I'm not surprised this scored so low here, but I just came across it and I really like it! It looks great from a distance, I imagine it would make a really nice print to be hung on a wall.
It is hard to see the flower because the editing is so heavy handed. Putting back some detail through a desaturated layer set to multiply might have given you the feeling you wanted with more sense of whatever detail there was here that drew you to shoot this image.
Different effect, but you stopped at the flower & leaves. So, you have a nice smooth photographic background and a rather intense filter. To me, the looks clash and are not pleasing.
Even with the texture, the dead leaves are still very visible.
Nice lighting.
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