Thanks again SriMesh for your comments and for looking at my blog. My flower work is usually "in situ" and I am particularly drawn to roses and Australian wildflowers of which we have an enormous abundance of varieties here in Western Australia.
I am glad you found Avonova's work interesting. When I get a chance I am going to add a light box album to my page, for some pics. I shared a few in the previous "share your shots forum" between Christmas and New Year. I am certainly going to be working more along this line, so thank you so much for your comments. You appear to have a log of experience - are you working in photography?
In the meantime, here is another from my "everlasting" series. I really wanted to capture there soft delicateness. I have some others on coloured backdrops, but I really want to experiment with the light coming through as in Avonova's work. I haven't used any pp work on these, I experimented with sharpening and colour adjustments, but really wasn't happy with the result - preferring the original photo - I found it was closer to the image I wanted.