Sometimes I can't figure out why the 1st place photos got the ribbon, and this kind of stuff gets in the 5.5 range. Why?!?! What's wrong with it?! This is beautiful. I just don't get it. You have my sympathy! :)
One of my favorites in the challenge; I like the soft focus and surreal colors. My guess is you're running in the middle of the pack the way things work around here, but you've got a 9 from me.
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two three now and I'm running late, sorry.