I have been told a number of times that I should crop out any foreground Blur because it's distracting.
http://i1046.photobucket.com/albums/...edited-2-1.jpg
When I look at this shot I like the fact that it has a blurry foreground, but I have also been told many times that I have no taste:(. Can somebody explain why doing what I have done above can be distracting. I made a version with the foreground cropped and though it looked flat and uninteresting.

