i have take some new images , with my new tripod , the image are ready about edit yet , so i know this flower need a bit of cleaning .
olympus e 420
4 sec.
f22
iso 100
zuiko macro lens 35mm+extetion tube 25mm
natural light on tripod ( at last a new one manfrotto )
full frame image no crop .
There is beautiful texture in this image Kostas. The side lighting really brings this out. The image is very sharp- well done with the tripod. Perhaps you could try a tighter, vertical crop to eliminate the green at the bottom of the image and reduce the influence of the large petal at centre-left. These images tend to benefit from having a consistent texture from edge to edge. Nice one!