ePhotozine Challenge

I have posted the shot below in the ePhotozine Flowers Interior Challenge. Would appreciate your comments on if it stands a chance? The images have to be resized to be posted and I think the reizing doesn't always show he image as well as it could.

hi pbabe, to me the pic is to busy and distracting, and the colours needs some adjustment,

Thanks Scott,

I did try changing the colours but didn't like it. I am not really bothered how well I do in the challenge, more interested in any comments I recieve. I will have another go with the clematis, but it is very sunny in our garfde at the moment, so may be challenging!

Too busy, and there is no context, so no focal point.
the lighting is quite flat, and the contrast is rather boring.
Also the DOF is great, and I personally like it shallow on this type of subjects, BUT the petals in front of the centre of the flower are very distracting, and detract from the focal point of the flower.

Hope this helps,

With a tad more saturation'contrast it could have been a different image

When shooting flowers try to get the forground in focus instead of the middle of the flower use a decent aperture so more of the flower will be in focus.

Macro photography is initially really hard to do but keep practicing and it pays off