I was trying to focus on the first pear but missed and only have everything from the next 2 pears on in focus. I didn't notice until I edited it and unfortunately had no time for a redo so I had to go with the best of the bunch. :-( Thanks for the comments and votes though. :-)
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The compositional structure is fine, but this doesn't really work for me over-all. The basket of dried flowers looks messy and bitty, and is quite confusing to the eye - possibly better in colour, and part of the challenge is making the right choices for mono conversion. The lighting doesn't really help your photo - side lighting, which you seem to be using is a good choice, but your set-up with the ultra black foreground and background blots out the essential shadows. There seems to be something a bit strange going on with the pear lying in the dish, possibly some JPEG artefact's from post processing? All in all, a good effort, but if you repeat the exercise, I feel that you need to concentrate on reproducing textures and shadows.
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