Pyoor's excuse for not working

That's a really good idea for the theme. Your first image is easily the superior of the three - I think you needed to keep all the text in to make the link to the theme obvious and only the first picture did that. I think the depth of field was about right - the word "softener" is mostly sharp and that's the important bit. I would have liked it to be less muddy colours though; maybe some more exposure, maybe some subtle colour adjustments or white balance correction in camera.