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Sorry for being slow to get this done but here we go 
I really love the colours in this shot, they give it such a gorgeously soft and pastel feel. Over all the composition's nicely balanced and the shallow depth of field really helps emphasise the focus on the rose that's the main subject.
My only real critic would be that it maybe could do with a tighter crop on the top and left since the the empty patches of dark above and to the left are a little distracting, it's not so bad at the bottom since there's enough of a gap between the petals and the bottom of the shot it doesn't distract the eye as much.
The main rose could probably benefit from a little sharpening just to pull out the edges a little more cleanly but that's not a major issue really. (A nice way I've found of sharpening that you can tweak is if you copy the layer, do a 'high pass' filter then set it on hard light and adjust the opacity to taste, it gives a bit of a cleaner sharpen than unsharp mask and you can adjust it afterwards too).
Besides that though -and they're just small niggles at that- I really love this shot, especially how you've managed to capture the water-droplets on the flower.
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Thank you very much! Especially for the tip with the sharpening - I have been looking for a way to do that with the rose because I felt it somewhat blended with the background, but couldn't sharpen it without loosing quality (: I'll just experiment a bit and see how it goes.
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Thank you ^___^ This is the effect I was aiming at!
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