Post challenge: I'm so happy with how this came out. I reached two of my goals! By the way, if anyone is interested, the reason for the redness is because this was taken at a pink sand beach in Bermuda. :D That's also the reason why the water is so blue. But anyway, thanks for all the wonderful comments. I'm very proud of this one!
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Your file size is only 42k in size. I can see the compression artifacts, but they are not as bad as such a file size usually has. You have certainly lost a lot of detail to that JPEG compression, however. Check your JPEG compression settings when you save the file, and always try to come in as close to the upper limit for the challenge as you can.