I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.
Positives: Ahh... one to make me stop and look! The superimposition of the colour noise on the texture works really well. This gives a simultaneous colour and black and white look that is intriguing. I wonder what the subject is - even the scale is harder to discern; the DOF suggests a high macro but it remains difficult to tell.
Critical stuff: it is what it is - nothing to suggest here.
Overall: Great to see something like this in the Free Study.