Thanks for the comments and suggestions - a difficult image to crop (given I didn't have much room stem upwards to work with) and still retain the sense of movement etc
here's an 'out-take':
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Even though it may not be eye candy for the dpc voters. You really have some nice colors, you could have pulled on the yellows a bit. That would have made a nice complementary colors. Also I might suggest cropping some off the right side and the bottom.