Just having fun.

Just took it today. Seems like all of them has dead part below it. I was too lazy to remove it. Sorry

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Yeah it's an interesting image. I like the three trees in the background. This could be a good candidate for a stock photo.

This might be even more compelling the other way around - letting the foreground go soft and bring the trees in sharp.

Or, just adjust your vantage point and try to get exactly on the hyperfocal distance to get it all sharp.

Too late now, but there's always the next time.

I like this one.a crop the either the left or right will take it off dead center and give the eyes some play.

Robert_Lay wrote in post #8869682
This might be even more compelling the other way around - letting the foreground go soft and bring the trees in sharp.

Or, just adjust your vantage point and try to get exactly on the hyperfocal distance to get it all sharp.

Too late now, but there's always the next time.

Next time, I agree. One more option (or more like a photo class assignment): see if you can try a 'nested' composition where you carefully align the foreground component with one of the trees - the more similar the shapes, the more striking the visual play becomes.

I like it AWG. There is some real potential for several renditions of this subject including your original version. I like the low angle POV and the nice texture shifts between the trees and the flower??? The color really adds a nice dimension as well.

Hope you don't mind but I wanted to show you how a tight crop can help a subject like this. Since the flower/weed is pretty much solitary and nearly round it really wants to be centered so I cropped hard to place it center and use the orange in the trees to support the orange in the stem. Note that the less supportive blue sky has been removed and we have limited the color palette to orange, green, white, and black. Sometimes a reduction actually boosts the clarity of an image by placing more emphasis and support on the subject itself.

I notice that there are some detail free areas in the trees and the top of the flower suggesting the exposure may be a little hot or something else is affecting the detail. You could clone the detail back into the image.

Thanks for letting me work with your image.

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Mu Eugene wrote in post #8870162
Next time, I agree. One more option (or more like a photo class assignment): see if you can try a 'nested' composition where you carefully align the foreground component with one of the trees - the more similar the shapes, the more striking the visual play becomes.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I intentionally used the trees and blurred it just to have a hint of FALL, but my intention is to capture one wild flower -dandelion that is still standing in the midst of Autumn. I felt if I focus them all -the seed, trees and grass, this ends up as a landscape photo....or if I blurr the foreground and focus on the trees, then the photo will be like text book. If the bokeh is too much, It might lose the hint of fall that I was trying to capture. As I mentioned before, I`m trying to shot something different and still experimenting...

Jetcode: That cropping looks good! Yeah, that sunset is hitting the right part of those trees...Feel free to play with the pic...Thanks man!

I like the shot, but reckon you'll make a better photographer than a botanist though. That's a dandelion seed head. Daffs flower in the spring

I didn't even know how I came up with using the name daffodil ? LOL ! Well at least I spelled the two first letter right.