Time for another principle -- negative space. Most beginners think that a photo must be a riot of activity and they are uncomfortable with places in the photo where nothing is going on. The parallel for this is a musician who has to learn about creating drama with silence. Listen to Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and you will get it.

Negative space is visual silence, or at least whispering. This photo roughly conforms to much of what has been discussed, the rule of thirds, repetition (the cone flowers), and odd number of elements (the three cone flowers). Now we have negative space on the upper left. Negative space creates tension with the rest of the image, and equally important, provides dramatic contrast and probably makes the image look more vivid. As they say, it is the silence between the notes that creates the music.