This was Self-DQ'd in the Bubbles II Challenge. I realized only AFTER submitting that this was a BASIC challenge. :O( Stupid thing was - I really didn't need to do any advanced processing - but chose to selectively mask a curves layer on the background (very subtle). As soon as I saw that it was BASIC (5 votes in), I self-DQ'd.
By the time SC pulled it - it was sitting at 40 votes, with a score of 7.15 and 10 awesome comments.