Honestly, I wasn't thrilled with this shot until I spent two days in airports seeing many similar magazines with covers similar to this one, so I've bumped your score up a notch. Still, I don't agree with your choice of focus; I'd like to see more of the piece in focus. I do like the unexpected framing, though.
I can easily see something like this on a natural-history exhibit focus in the Smithsonian.
It might be slightly too tight a focus as a further crop would make the object harder to identify, but it isn't out of the question. There's enough colour neutrality to easily allow for the placement of coverlines without ruining the intensity of the photo.
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