Mary, that's a lovely photo of GREEN SPILL, give it a try.The competition is tough but if you don't enter you'll never know. The experience of doing it is a good thing in itself. When you start to enter photo contests I think you become much more critical of your photos and DO notice all those things that can distract from the photo. A pretty flower doesn't necessarily make a nice photo if there's something distracting in the line of sight and there are soooooooo many things that can distract like fingers, feet, bad leaves, dead flowers, the list could go on and on......... I hope that I'll have time to look through my photos and make some entries this year. I'm told by friends that I was the runner up for the multiple flower catagory for last years contest but for some reason with my move and all I have not received my copy of the Journal as yet so haven't seen the photo. Soon I should be getting a replacement copy.
As far as entering the photo contests you have nothing to loose but your time. Good luck to all