The instructor for my summer garden photography class at the Denver Botanic Gardens, Jim Steinberg, said that the eye goes to the brightest spot or the sharpest spot in the photograph. In that case, a photo like this one can never work because the bright, blurry flower is competing with the light, focused leaf. What do you think?

I took this photo on Friday, August 28, the day of Fete des Fleurs. Since the Botanic Gardens were closed when I arrived, I walked around the corner and photographed flowers on 12th Avenue.