While I like the concept, I think you could have achieved what you wanted and kept the background in focus by getting closer to one of the flowers.

As it is, you have flowers, but none of them are dominant, therefore the eye may look at them, but then moves on to the background and is confused.

If I may suggest a solution, get lower placing a single flower in focus and using the mountains as the background. Pink against white.

Other than that use hyperfocal distance to keep them both in focus. https://www.google.com/#q=hyperfocal+distance

Thank you for sharing. S-

There has been, rightly, much discussion about the oof mountains...necessary or not? and RG stated that the eye sees what it looks at...sounds like "Duh"...but it's profound. My concern with bringing the mountains within hyperfocality isn't their ability to distract from the beautifully focused shooting stars in the FG...it's that those exquisitely focused blossoms would be lost among all the damned identically hued blossoms behind them if they, too, were in focus,
Damned if you do, not too bad off if y'don't do anything( in my opinion)

Impact: 3.5
tech: 3
comp: 3
9.5/15 a nice image

Dave in SD

I am going to differ from just about everything that has been said.

I find the mountains distracting and the more in focus they are, the more distracting to me they will be. For me, this picture is about those delicate flowers, not some distant mountains. I am not interested in that "context". If you are, go photograph them separately. Therefore, I would frame this lower to capture more of the stems (they look cut off here), step back with a long lens, and use a large aperture. The hardest thing about this would be the aperture. You want large for narrow depth of field (i.e., bokeh) but small enough for depth of field as those flowers move in the breeze and optimal lens sharpness.

If I assume the white on the mountains is snow, then the color balance is off. I do like the three-dimensional effect of the flowers.

Now for all the "you do not know what you are talking about".

Thanks for your critique, it is most welcome. It has become pretty clear that my "intent" didn't work for the majority of the viewers (a learning experience for me). I do have frames of just the flowers which turned out ok, but as mentioned previously, these are a bugger due to their size (or lack thereof). The light had started to get a little harsh, and trying to balance the shade of the flowers to everything else was pretty difficult. I may have messed up the White Balance in post.