Thank you for the nice comments. I had no intention of entering this challenge because I thought it would end up being a disaster, I'm trying not to enter every challenge any more just for the sake of it, but with about five hours to go before rollover I changed my mind.
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The result here is an interesting abstract. Which is good (I especially love that yin/yang object on the upper left). So I guess my interpretation of the image's badness, and there has to be some for this challenge, depends on what would have been a "good" capture of the scene. And I have no way of knowing that. So let's assume a middling degree of badness that made it to good. (BTW, my head hurts from trying to figure out how to vote on this!).