to be honest, i think that no one can top marys floral photography steeze... but these are.. its just me talking tho kinda un interesteing, theres nothign good about the pic any one can take a pic of a flower, but if you make every phot unique thats a talent... try taking a different aspect on things.. and it looks like you dont have the proper lense for macro, everything is zoomed way to far out.  you might want to get like a cheep 70-300mm macro lens it should be pretty good for that, but if you want better close ups you have to dish out the money for it... and i have to ask this just out of curiousity... what kind of camera are you useing? cause if its a point and shoot i may have to say if you want to acctually get into photography SLR's are the way to go, either digital or 35mm... digital cost's more, but its worth it rather than spending like $15 on each roll of film or if ou wanna be cheep and get cheep 200 film its like $1 for a roll, its still going to cost you for developing it.  but yah these are just my comments