Hmmm in my opinion,…
I like number one because it's simple yet completely aesthetic to the senses. The leaf signifying a changing in time from season to season, even in this decaying form; that it can still hold onto its inner and outer statuesque state as nature has defined it. Its frailties become its allure; the impending calamity is wasted not for the eternity of its own inner peace that the photograph has captured.