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I agree with Nasa, the blurred goat in the foreground does tend to be rather distracting. Still, on the other hand, I rather like it. It is certainly an interesting composition that you don’t often see! But, as you are ‘shooting’ with a camera with a very small sensor, the amount of ‘defocusing’ that you can achieve is rather small. The smaller the sensor, the larger the DOF (Depth-Of-Field) will be. About the only way to overcome this is to zoom as much as possible, and position the subject as far away as possible from the background/foreground.
As an example here, you can see that the background is quite ‘out-of-focus’. To take this shot, I zoomed in as far as my lens would let me, and I didn’t set the puppy right in front of the trees, I had the puppy posed about 30 feet away in front of the trees. If I could take this shot again, I would have put even more distance between the trees and the puppy thereby blurring the trees even more.