My first submission really bombed...hope this one will do better
Added a few drops of black ink to water and shot the patterns...though the black ink has given out some blueish color too.....i hope that dosent lead to DQ.....
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OK, this took me a while to get to. Sorry. But you were over the 10-picture limit. ;)
I'm not sure what your PP steps were, but my first impression technically is that it is soft. Using some USM may have made it stand out quite a bit better.
It works fairly well as an abstract. Just FYI, abstracts tend to not do as well on DPC. Just a fact of life, but not something that should dissuade you should you want to enter one. The extreme vertical crop works nicely. I guess in the end I feel there isn't quite enough to hold the eye. We take it in and move on fairly quickly (as evidenced by the 92 5-votes).
Keep plugging away though. 5.5 on your second challenge isn't bad at all.