Last Year's Honeysuckle...

[casil403]

Took this also for critiques...thoughts? I put a tiny bit of focal BW to focus more on the leaf and stem.
Lemme have it cuz its how I improve.....thanks!

[tirediron]

This is a tough image to capture because the colour of the subject is so similar to that of the background. I think I'd like to see it framed so that that area nearest the camera was in focus and with less 'empty' background. I'm almost never a fan of unfocused foreground elements, and would prefer any areas that are OOF be in the background. Perhaps a slight position change to your left would have helped with this.

[Mad Aussie]

I want to grab the right side of the frame and push it left so the subject's stem sits at the bottom right corner and the flower is more right than left.

I don't mind foreground elements being out of focus but much prefer them to be separate from the main subject. Like an out of focus tree branch in the foreground but the person I shot in focus. Adds depth.
But I don't think it works well very often when the out of focus area is part of the main subject.

In this case I think I maybe would have shot a little more from the left side of the flower which is the flowers front.

The exposure looks great and the detail in the flowers petal is well caught too.