Fantastic shot, concept, result and effect.
If you'd got the brown it would have been one of the greats - still begs to be included in the genre - limboing under the supercilious ignorance of non-perceivers...
This is very cool and very well done. At first, I'm looking at a the floor of a room and then I see the title and slowly the image transforms into an ocean. Very interesting indeed! ;-) Much like a chameleon. Yeah you got robbed but this is not a shot you look at for half a second and figure it out. It takes a few moments to "get it" and when you do, you feel like you are one of the few smart ones out there. ;-) Nice work!!
You SO got robbed! From my perspective anyway. But it's completely understandable, and I'm sure you expected your score to crater with this one, so I guess you entered it in the same spirit in which I enter many of mine. Congrats on a transcendent image :-)
The subject or feeling you're trying to convey is unclear to me, I think because of the lighting. You might try a long exposure without the use of the flash.
Ehh, I don't really know what I'm looking at here, if I were to guess I would say it's a table top sitting next to a wall. I don't have anything against abstract but I really don't think this works!