Wow... tuff crowd.... I to see soft focus , but Feel it just adds to the canvas appearance of the shot for me.. kind of like , hmmmm , well for a photo , it has an overall to much saturation feel., like a over processed photo. The kind of look where one first seeing this might say , hey thats no photo, somebodys' messed with this... lol...
Soooo I kind of figured he gave this pic an overall feel of blur through processing
I don't know, but whatever it is he did, I like it with this pic !! Looks like a Painting for a wall to me !
buttttt understand what everyone is getting at also...