Is it more pleasing to the eye to have your subject leading to the right or left?
example I thought i read somewhere that one is better than the other.
I think that for Westerners, at least, our language tends us toward a left-to-right preference. It would be fascinating to learn whether cultures with languages that go right-to-left or top-to-bottom have equally dissimilar visual perception.
Terry, it depends on what you want to say with your photo. A photo from left to right is mostly more friendly and one from right to left feels more aggressive.
It depends on your subject what is more pleasing. Your eyes will naturally follow lines from the left to the right. That's why for example diagonal lines from lower left to upper right are considered "ascending" and from upper left to lower right "descending" despite it's in theory dependent on your point of view.
In my opinion your example photo looks better in a flipped version, because in the original my eyes are guided in a bend towards the blossom "out" of the frame while in the flipped version I start at the blossom and look down along the stem.
