hmm its in the critique thread so I'll break my thoughts down into point form
1) MyPix I don't think its noise its just way over compressed see point 5
2) from what I can make out I like the composition and subject
3) Is the blue background sky because it doesn't really look like it the blue is not right
4) I hate the border does nothing to aid the picture if anthing distracts from the main image.
5) Why oh why is the image only 62kb? Thats less than 40% of the maximum filesize
To remedy point 4 I recomend making a border like the ones steve tends to use (thats who I copied
)
here's a good example and a stunning photo to gawp at. All you have to do is resize your image to say 565 on the longest side put a stroked line around it then resize the
canvas to 570 on the longest and stroke again finally resize the canvas again to 600. I've never used elements does it have actions like CS2? If it does you'll want to set one up for this saves loads of time! again don't know elements but the basic controls are probably in similar places to photoshop so check out
this tut steve wrote on how to add borderes with strokes and resizing stuff
Ok Point 5 should be very simple to fix when you save your image after adding you border save for web and follow
this tut of matts for the best file quality you can get.
I know the tutorials I've linked to are for photoshop but I'm guessing adobe will have included the functions in elements in pretty much the same places
Finally I think there are some great shots in what you posted they're just let down by the poor file quality and in my opinion some of you new found borders