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Quite the bracelet! I can tell this wasn’t just a snapshot; like you didn’t just see your bracelet laying there and snap a picture of it. It appears as though you specifically positioned the figures so that they would “stand out” and didn’t just compose them in the center of your shot.
If I was taking this shot, I would have composed it so the bracelet filled more of the frame. If I may say that the figures are on a third, they are on the bottom left third with the rest of the bracelet heading off on the left. This puts too much weight on the left side of the image creating imbalance. It would be better if the figures were on the bottom right third with the rest of the bracelet trailing off out of focus to the left third. Or, perhaps positioning the figures on the top right third would crop off the top and add more information at the bottom of the image thus eliminating the bright area in the top right corner. Bright areas “attract”, and in this case “distract”, the eye.