Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment, I'm pleased some people really liked it, I was regretting entering this at first until the positive comments started coming in. Thanks John, Robert and Don for coming back and commenting after the challenges ended also, it's nice knowing I've produced something people have given a second look.
Originally posted by Ken:
I'm guessing here you know you have a compelling photo yet wanted to enter it somewhere. But IMO it's not abstract and must vote accordingly. I bet this would look great in B&W.
Actually before entering this challenge I looked up abstract photography on several sites (here, 1x, flickr, google images...) to get a better idea of what classifies as abstract, as well as checking the dictionary definition - to me this seemed to fit fine. It was only after I saw everyone else's entries and my score plummeting that I realised I was mistaken.
I'm guessing here you know you have a compelling photo yet wanted to enter it somewhere. But IMO it's not abstract and must vote accordingly. I bet this would look great in B&W.