Comment from nature rules
This is very beautiful. I love that you used your dof in the forefront of your frame so that your viewer must look past the light pink to see the more focused buds and of course the beautiful opened flower right before them. Your bg is perfectly shaded and shows the outdoors with subtlety and complimentary colors to the tree flowers. A lovely entry for this contest. Best of luck!

 Comment Written 18-Apr-2017

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reply by the author on 18-Apr-2017

Thank you

Comment from Dick Lee Shia
Aptly captured for the contest theme...
Colors are visually soothing.
Selective focusing but I guess there's a better vantage point where you can have more blooms than buds in focus.
The hazy foreground grabs a lot of focal attention from the sharply captured florets!
Was this grossly cropped?
The reddish hues are smudgy.
Nice perspective & narrow DOF.
Thanks for sharing...

 Comment Written 15-Apr-2017

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reply by the author on 16-Apr-2017

Thank you

Comment from ciaobella
I like the colors of these flowers. Would of liked to see the focus on the front ones also and maybe cropped a bit more. Thanks for sharing.

 Comment Written 15-Apr-2017

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reply by the author on 15-Apr-2017

Thank you