A lovely looking photo and I really like the subject. It has lots of different bits and pieces of tones to it. The only suggestion I have would be to do a bit of tone blending on the other not attached leaves and stems.
Dave, thanks a lot for your comments. It was dark, quite much and I had difficulties with matrix metering. I had to switch over to spot metering to get proper exposure on the flower. A little better light would have brought the details of the other leaves.
Hi Prabir and welcome to the Macro forum! You have a nice shooting angle on the flower plus good sharpness and DOF. I think your image would be even stronger with a few tweaks. I would suggest brightening the whole image a little and maybe adding some yellow to the overall color tone to warm things up. As presented, the darkness and blue/green tones give it a bit of a gloomy look. You might also consider cloning the small spots on some of the petals. These minor changes would bring the image up a couple notches. I hope to see more of your work here in Macro!
Yes to welcome and yes to brightening it up quite a bit. Plus a bit less saturation. I do like the image design and your choice of perspective.
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The critique has already been covered well but here's a suggestion for something to try when shooting a flower in gloomy conditions. If you want to go with that gloomy feeling, try misting the flower with a water spray bottle to make it looks like it's been raining.