Rose and Bokeh SOOC 50mm Challenge

Today's entry in the SOOC 50mm challenge. I fiddled around in camera a lot to try to get the contrast the way I wanted it. I have to say in camera JPEG shooting sure is hard!
Thanks for your visits, comments, suggestions, favs

[Marnie]

I like the sharp focus on the rose, works well with the bokeh background Jane. Don't know about your camera, but I recently discovered I could set my viewfinder and LCD screen to b&w, something which helps with the tones.

[Rick]

Great capture.

[Milanie]

Nicely composed to pick up the contrasts.

[Diana]

Beautiful contrasts and bokeh.

[Susan.T.]

This is beautiful, love the B & W. :)

[Rob Z]

A month with only SOOC - that's a hard ask. I think the worst part would not being able to crop it as you want. The rose is very natural looking here. :)