Cheers graham, hahahah, i got a bucket of flower photos to go through so might see more arty-farty flower pics from me soonmy oh my, looky here, Carl has gone arty...lol
As it goes tho it aint that bad, maybe the sun is a bit strong in the photo, maybe its possible to tone it down a little.
Nice one Carl
Maybe the flower head on the right looks too bright compared with the one on the left? It's almost as if you had used a refector to bounce light back on to the RH one, especially as we can plainly see that you have shot into the sun.
I think that might be it!!You say 'something's missing' and I think you have hit the nail on the head with that,objects or things tend to look better in odd numbers,3 or 5 of these thistle heads would look much better IMO.