Send me a large file too. Do you have a noise reducing software? I use it on any picture where I know I am going to do some Topaz. It does help to minimize that graininess that you see in this pic. I bet with some tweaking, this would be fun to enter into the fair. I may have to enter a topaz photo as well now that you mentioned it :)
I think this is beautiful. I love the texture of the image, it gives impact to it. I agree about the printing, but then again try different types of paper, and see what happens.
Seems tol me you're coming up with WAY too many artifacts here for this to be successful. I'd be happy to have a go at it and see what's possible if you could point me at the arge, original file.