Photo rejected, I know it was a long shot

[Fluryf]

now wouldn't this photo make a good abstract background?

[daniellei4510]

The small thumbnail assets are too small to make objective comments on. As for the large one, although I'm assuming the "borders" at the top and right-hand side aren't really borders but part of the asset, they still com across as borders and Adobe does not allow those. Overall, it looks like a very poorly done scan.

[Jill_C]

The large image isn't really suitable as a background due to the composition, shadows and contrast of light and dark elements. 

[Ricky336]

now wouldn't this photo make a good abstract background?

By @Fluryf

No, it wouldn't.

It's too distracting for a background for the reasons mentioned!

[Abambo]

What was the refusal reason? Quality issues or Commercial appeal?

Even that the first and the last picture are too small to check, I've seen several issues on your first.

• noise
• missing parts with you'r leaves, which will make them unusable for most applications.

Your second asset also exposes noise. Yes, it could be used as a background, but I suppose there are multiple assets in the database that fulfill that task better.