Wanted to do something different than tree branches framing a landscape which was the only other thing I could think of. I have this paperweight at work and one day I noticed the sunlight through it. Didn't come out a cool as I hoped, I'm guessing a score of 4.7 on this one.
Anyway, some adjustment to color and contrast, cropped. Noise reduction made the sky nice but took a lot of detail out of the building, so I left the noise in.
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"Is this framed?" That will be the question others might ask, to which I reply "Yes, yes it is...and it's a pretty good photo, too! Except for that distracting stuff in the top left corner...a tighter crop might've been more appropriate."
Very nice photo, in my opinion at least. Clear, colorful, fits the challenge. Just my personal preference, I would have liked a closer crop at the top -- for whatever it's worth ;-)
The 'thing' at the top of this photo is quite distracting but I love the reflections and the contrast that you got at the bottom left between the subject and the background.