Stunning - I wonder why this didn't score higher? Maybe because you chose not to satureate the colors to screaming neon yellow? Should be in the top ten.
nice colors and great composition. looks like a bit too much noise reduction OR perhaps it is from compressing it down to submittable size, but it looks kinda, well, kinda like to much noise reduction happened.
I'm going to assume that your colors are more subdued because of when this challenge was announced and that the fall colors were well past prime where you took this. I live south in Colorado, and know things were well past for me. Still, a good shot. The front and center treebranch in the foreground and the plants in the lower right detract somewhat though.