1 - Too small and pixelation/resizing issues (perhaps), to discern if this is clouds.. perhaps taken from a plane, who knows. Straightening and a crop to eliminate that 'something' bottom right, also make this better in my opinion.
I am sure you will be told a number of times that the image is too small and noisy. If you have photoshop there is an excellent tutorial here on how to prepare your photos for challenges.Preparing photos for DP Challenge Happy shooting! :)
I would love to see this cropped for effect, and take advantage of the size rule for this challenge. Your intent was good here, but as you might be hearing by now through comments, the size ended up being way to small for this free study. (Cool sunrise, though!!!)
The potential for this is lost because the small sizing makes it very difficult to see the details. You really want to use the full 720 pixels this challenge allows(or at least the normal 640).
Quite possibly good potential here, but unfortunately, way too small to see the detail. tough break if it was a camera phone and that was the maximum size.
hm, i wasn;t going to comment, but i figured i will.
Shots this small NEVER do well, and the quality of the image is very low. the shot itself look interesting. it seems you might have taken this from a plane or someting which gives it originality points in my books, but it i can't appreaciate it cause of the size and quality.
If i might say to you...make the picture as big as possible in free study it should be 720 at the long side...if you did this on purpose then i dont think that it has worked.