Agrimonia

Like this composition and the point behind it, John. The bg with its graded light I also like very much. If anything the main flower seems a touch soft, but maybe you intended that ?

Thanks for your comment, Ian. The softness, which I see as well, was not intentional. The context is one of a weekly class I'm taking on local flora identification, a topic completely new to me, and the pictures I'll be posting are merely snapshots taken in passing for purposes of documentation. The teacher will not allow tripods or set-up time, and so everything is hand-held and usually, as in this case, some stiff breezes and often a fair degree of magnification are "noise factors", as in this uncropped shot taken pretty close up. .

I've decided to post a few of this series because I think some on NPN may be interested in wildflowers and because it can be instructive to me and others to receive feedback on the flaws. So I'm glad you noticed the softness and pointed it out, and I hope folks don't hesitate to critique other shots in the series. Maybe when the classes are over, I will go back with my tripod and try some focus stacking.

John - I would love to attend classes like that some day - sounds like fun and education.

Since you mentioned the background, it making commenting a lot easier now that we know the constraints you were working under. The only other thing I would attempt (assuming there is no restriction from the teacher) is to present this as a vertical.

I like the composition and the color palette in this. For some reason it looks a bit soft - maybe just compression. Otherwise you have a very nice image, John.

EDIT: Sorry, I usually try to comment before reading others' comments so I just saw your comment about the softness. Completely understandable under the circumstances!!