[jiminyClickit]

Heidilyn, Welcome

Good subject and color combination. The sharpness seems confined to the bloom's center, very little of any petal showing much detail. Very narrow DOF could account for that, but EXIF doesn't seem to agree. Were you in any Macro or other mode?

If you imagine blooms as faces, and treat the image as a portrait, your subject is looking right, and is on the right side of the composition. Your viewer follows that look out of the frame, again and again. In the viewfinder, just before the shutter completes your shot, is the time to move that face to a position that arrests your viewer, makes them stay and enjoy it. That increased sharpness is important for the same reason: for a longer, more enjoyable viewing.

Cropping is sometimes the last chance you have to get better composition. If this is how you framed in camera, you're left little choice but to go in closer for a tight center shot. If you get in the habit of leaving "breathing room" around all your bloom's petals, they are a more relaxed sight, and it leaves you the option of a different composition. I have to wonder what you saw as you took this? Did you notice just the edges of some petals were clipped?