Linda From Maine wrote:
This is a really interesting image to me. The shiny red with the bit of white highlight, the textures of the flowers and the way they're lit, the whole composition - it's quite compelling! The only thing I'd change personally is to remove the hard edges of the area that goes from black to gray on the right-hand side, just make it smoother so my eye doesn't stop there and wonder what it is.
Much Thx Linda of Maine for your observation and CC. I too considered that, but I then noticed that after several looks at that area, mentally conming from black to light grey to black, again I noticed my attention immediately bounced back across the photo. So I chose to keep it...lol