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The colors are nice although a little washed out on my monitor. The real problem I see here is that the stamen doesn't pop away from the flower petals. I think you needed to shoot this from a different angle (or in the second image crop out almost of the petals and just focus on the stamen).
Yeooow! Red attack! Nice shots in that they show a powerful burst, but sthere is a lot of softness and fading out: I think the DOF was set too shallow, you could double the DOF easy in these. Excellent composition in both.
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I agree it is a little washed out and the depth of field us to narrow. The upper part of the flower is out of focus. I would suggest a higher f/stop next time. I think with some post processing more detail in the petals and rain drops could be brought out.
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The bottom photo is beautiful to me. It's quite abstract, looks like a drop/splash. The composition is right on, the drops of water balance it out even more. My eye gets distracted a little bit from the somewhat blown out corner(top left), moreso than the slightly blurred parts of the photo(i dont think this is much of a problem), maybe burn it in a bit.(top left)