compose a photograph somehow related to the garden. Here's the catch... the main subject of your photograph may NOT be a flower.
Too bad there wasn't a bug on this flower...
Beautiful photo, but it's probably getting dinged for being a flower as the main focus. But the picture itself is very nice even if it doesn't meet the challenge.
A little hard to vote low on this because it is a nice shot. However you did fail to follow the instructions of the challenge. If I was the client and you had the scope of work for this photo shoot as detailed, I would not pay for the work and I probably wouldn't call again for future work. Great shot though! TOo bad...
Nice flower as main subject. Probably won't get scores to match image quality because of the second part of the challenge details: "... Here's the catch... the main subject of your photograph may NOT be a flower." Not voting just now. Apologies if this duplicates other comments.
Very beautiful flower but the challenge rules say:
Details: Simple enough -- compose a photograph somehow related to the garden. Here's the catch... the main subject of your photograph may NOT be a flower