The color depth is beautiful, but the image is terribly fuzzy looking. The quality of your starting photo definitely affects your results...Maybe if you sharpen it slightly before indexing the colors?

Thanks mossy I posted this as i really liked the colour depth too. I was aware the original image was fuzzy but didn't want to sharpen as one of the instruction in this competition was no other modifications could be made. As such thought sharpening this image maybe be against the guidelines this was my understanding anyway may have got the wrong end of the stick.