Thanks everyone for the kind remarks. For me, it was a DNMC image, so I'm glad it did this well. I intended to post another image, but in the final moments before the deadline, the image I intended to submit was corrupted. So I went with another file that wasn't corrupted even though it didn't exactly fit the theme.
This is the file I had hoped to enter.
I was going to entitle it Two Turtle Doves.
No regrets though.
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feel the lighting here on the left side of the image (top and bottom especially) could be helped a bit. not sure if you were going for a faded outside but given the brightness of the tree, it feels a bit flat on the left