Beautiful flower shots. I really like the first few pictures, 1 to 4 are my favourites - very beautiful. (No. 9 seems like it has a lot of camera shake.)
Thanks much for the kind words. I did handhold the camera with VR on. #9 was at 1/10 sec to try and make the water cotton like but it came out soft instead. Going slower to 1/2 second without tripoding would have made the picture worse. I thought that it turned out kind of interesting in that the background appears to be in motion. So, I saw it more like that and not that it is out of focus. But it is out of focus.
Thanks much, 3 does have elegance and texture, along with simplicity and grace. Thanks very much for the kind words. I brought out the background highlights just enough for some definition on the flower but just a bit. The area under the flower cause me some grief and I left it alone to just help present the flower above. I had tried to tone that little area down with no real success.
