Lilly

[AL.T]

My first submit,shot from open car window (while parked)waiting for my wife,10 feet away with 70-300 sigma on canon 50d,that lens was on camera at the time.

[Iguanasan]

Nice shot. I spend a fair bit of time waiting in the car for my wife as well

Love that lens too!

[AL.T]

Thanks, like they say never leave home without your camera.

[asnow]

Very good use of time. Nicely observed.

[kevin99989]

nice job - i like the dew drops especially!

[Wicked Dark]

not bad. The colors are nice. Good job thinking ahead and then enacting on that.

[AL.T]

thanks for the nice comments.

[Wicked Dark]

You know, I didn't realize this was in critique, so here's my input - maybe a touch of contrast boost here, particularly in the mid-range would help this. Also I'd like a more harmonious OOF swath of flowers back there; it seems cut off to me. Otherwise, good job.

[AL.T]

Is empty back there, background is neighbors driveway(along bottom)grass and dark green bushes in back.Have to pay more attention to empty backgrounds.
Thanks.

[Iguanasan]

I did not realize it was the critiques thread either. D'oh!

I really like the composition with the empty triangle in the upper left. I like the focus and the colour and brightness just the way it is. The water drops indicate a grey and drab day and that's what I feel even though I'm looking at a very lovely flower. Of course, I'm on my work computer so maybe I'm being fooled. If there is anything I would do to make this image stronger I would chop off the right hand side very close to the right-most petal of the main flower. This would move the flower out of the centre and give more strength to the negative space.