Forgive me, Belinda, for speaking to Mark, but I mean to say:
"Mark, and I am enjoying your comments, always!"
Funny, that when I looked at the third photo, I thought the exact same that Mark has said: the backlit cacti (?) in the foreground are wonderful, but I would have liked a close-up, or just a dark background in the entire photo better, too.
The first one reminds me of our holidays on the Island of Madeira in the Atlantic off the northern west coast of Africa where I took I-don't-know-how-many "flower portraits" like this one, too. I could inundate the board with those...