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I'd have preferred that the whole flower be in focus, instead of just the petals on front...
That can actually be harder than it first sounds. When working close to a subject the depth of field you get at each aperture decreases and working as close to a flower as in this shot would (I expect) mean that getting the depth of field to cover the whole flower would either be impossible or impractical. That latter part being that (on most setups) once you start stopping down beyond f13 diffraction will start to take place and that will mean that your images will be softer. f16 is the absolute limit that I work with and I mostly stick to f13.
In the flower shot presented here the focus is really where (I at least ) feel it needs to be - on the foreground petals which dominate the photo in its presentation.
You can use atelephoto lens and thus shoot from further away, which will give you a little more (not very much at all) depth of field; or you can use a method called focus stacking to stitch together a series of images to give a final resulting composite image which has a greater depth of field than normally possible.