Thank you! You are very creative and have a great imagination!!

Lovely, lovely, lovely!

Thank you, thank you. thank you!

Thank you! As having served as a judge in photography contest-I am Shocked by the photo that won

The "From Behind" contest

IMO the background actually distracts from the image.

Much better, this one has class. Glad I held my vote.

Striking color and design. Nice Work!

I love roses...

Very pretty, but a little too centered

with kyricom on that...something else... did you try taking a shot from..a slightly different angle? perhaps instead of focusing on the face of the flower itself, angle to the side, so you get a little more of the body of the bud...and then off center the picture a bit so that you take in account some basic rule of thirds. helps to set off a shot.
i do love how the leaves of this rose plant are multi colored as well. adds to the "tropic" part of your title. beautiful rose

needs more DOF, the melon is too soft.

Agree with friiskiwi.....

looks wonderful in High Res