#1. nonsuch, Sony Xperia XA2, Sailfish OS camera. Cropped to 1:1
Excellent focus and good background blurring. The detail on the seed fluffs is good altouh I would have liked so see individual "parachutes" better.

#2. kinggo, XZ2 stock camera, resized and curve adjusted in gimp
Beautiful and evocative image of a flower, nice background of the green plant bits. good composition but the colour range is a bit limited.

#3. pichlo, Xperia X, cropped and resized in Paint
Technically not as good as it could be but "tastefully" very good idea and conveys well the theme do -your-thing!

#4. catbus, N9
Good idea but problems with getting the subject in focus.

#5. eson, Xperia X, Sailfish stock photo app, some cropping by Pix
quite tasty capture showing the contrast between the ripe and raw strawberries. Too bad the focus plane is not in the red berry!

#6. Fellfrosh, Pro1 Stock camera, cropped with darktable
Very rangy and pleasant capture, however missing an interesting foreground detail.

#7. Maemish, N900
Again something that nails the topic spot on, clearly an adorated hobby object hidden in a shed somewere!

#8. robthebold, Sailfish X on Xperia X, stock photo app
Good color splash macro again; but the problem is that DOF is not centered in the main theme.

Tis time it is real chestnut on whether to select something tat is technically perfect (#2 Kinggo) or sometthing that is not so but rather fits the topic like #3 Pichlo or #7 Maemish...

I'll go for #3 Pichlo this time, for taste reasons