Project 2 - focus with a st aperture

Here I took a photo of the same scene but I focused on a different distance:

Photo no 1:


Photo no.2:


I think this 2 photos explain exactly the focus issue as in both of them the subject that is not in the focus looks like a background and the one in the focus is a clear subject, even if they have the same colour and/or shape.

I prefer photo no.2 because in the first photo the leaves in the front just interfering with the photo when in photo no.2 the un-focused background is adding an extra green which I like.