Red petals I

A red gerbera from a bouquet I got the other day. I spent more than an hour roaming around it with my macro lens trying to get some really cool photos! It ended up with about seven photos that I really liked, and these make up this little series.

This first photo has a very simple look, but I really like how it turned out, especially the darkness of the background and the blood-red color I'm not really happy about the little white specks, but I have no idea what they are, and I think it's a little too much editing to try to remove them (even though I like photoshop, I'm not happy about removing things from my photos )

As always, please give your opinions - I am always happy for some honest critique and feedback

More of the series: