the processing just seem a little off. This is especially evident in the clouds.
I totally agree. This photo was shot in a 10 minute window between heavy rainstorms, and needed far too much processing to make semi-decent. I would have spot edited the clouds if not for this being a basic editing challenge.
Watch your JPEG compression. I can see obvious compression artifacts around the high contrast edges and some blockiness in the sky. Compression kills detail. At A 71K file size, you had another 230k of file size overhead in order to use less compression. I'm afraid that I'm somewhat anal about compression and seeing such avoidable artifacts does knock some off my vote.
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