Yup, it's a toughie. The judges will probably have the choice of images that such good use of their rule-breaking style that they don't seem 'odd' at all, or images that are just plain perverse for the fun of it!

I interpreted the challenge to be for an image that was improved by deliberate contravention of the rules/norms for the type of picture. In my case (landscape) I also chose, for a focus, something that would normally be cropped out, obscured by a handy tree or photoshopped away as an eyesore. By dropping the horizon to the bottom of the frame, excluding all depth information and clues about location and placing the focus in the middle, I count 5 rules at least a bit bent.

Perhaps I should have posted it upside down?