Nice thinking but a better composition would have help it a lot! Still be a good looking image, GL author

I feel this would be better with the top part cropped right to where the paper meets the desk/table

the white candles are too light, you can't see the wicks, took me a while to figure our what I was looking at.

A contrast adjustment or even a bump up in color saturation would have greatly improved this photo.

I loooove the colors on this flower

good catch...........and nice soft focus for the subject, well done.

Beautiful, good luck in a tough contest!!!