Per suggestion of other contributors, two uploads that has been rejected, for comments

With your first, I have issues with the framing. It's not optimal. A panoramic view would have been better with more material left and right. But I doubt that this would have been the rejection. I see washed out details typical for a small sensor camera. And there is this strange something in the water (at 100%!):

You see a seam around that object from sharpening, besides that, it is a mysterious object… One of those errors led the moderator to refuse the image. My guess: the washed out details, as they are easy and fast to spot.

Your second would need effectively some dehaze/added contrast. But you have also here artefacts typical of small sensors like these eaten up details as part of an aggressive noise reduction:

(you see it at 100%, but the screenshot here is at 200%, just to make it more obvious to you)

This “optimization” is seen a little bit all around in the image, where you should have fine detail. In addition, I see compression artefacts (also visible at 100%, but the screenshot here is at 200% to make it more obvious):

Rejections are clearly not by error, given the multiple issues in the pictures. And they are not due to any increased quality requirements. And they are also not due to having the moderation team anywhere in the world. These pictures are clear rejections and should also have been rejections five years ago.

I will need to be clear here: someone who has 2000 assets in the database should be able to analyse these pictures, even before submitting.

As far as I am concerned. The second is not sharp enough and lacks contrast.

Hello,

In my view, basically, the saturation is a bit too much. You will get a deeper blue when you are high up.

The peak is 2790m. And as @Jill_C mentioned, you could use the 'dehaze' filter just a bit.

In file 273, there is some lens flare/ghosting in the bottom left corner.

I would also try to get all of the frozen lake in. The edges are getting cut off.

Also a small correction in the white balance in both photos - esp, in the 2nd photo.

This might just be me, but I don't like harsh shadows when I don't know what's causing them. I used Content Aware Fill (the interface itself) to remove them.

Autour du mont Obiou (273)P.jpg - the file is quite small, so it's difficult to determine whether sharp focus was achieved, because when I zoom in it becomes quite pixelated. The shadows are a bit underexposed, and I would reduce the highlights quite a bit to bring back some detail and texture in the white area. In general, though, I think the composition lacks an interesting focal point.

Autour du mont Obiou (1329).jpg - The image looks as if it is straight out of camera and could use some editing. White Balance is a bit too blue. Shadows could be lifted a bit, and Dehaze applied to overcome the haze in the air. As with the prior file, it's difficult to determine whether sharp focus was achieved.