do you have your photos elsewhere? post a link to yor portfolio

If one of us is feeling kind we may suggest ten photos to try. I find that variety is almost as important as the techicnal aspects remember no noise and no blown out highlights if there are any pixels at 255 luminosity you may have trouble.

I would suggest you to avoid sky in first submition , cause it can be tricky to reduce noise and not do remove details , and SS don't want , noise .

I wouldnt send nothing over white  in first batch also.


I would sent the money shot , Spanish chapel ( but get rid of the noise on the sky , if any , you can use the blur tool also cause its clear sky shoot) , few of baby shoots , 2 lets say

Vally -- I believe you are correct, that those "not approved" may be the ones that were merely rejected because you didn't hit the magic number of 7.  Meaning they actually were okay.
     I got shot down by SS, gee I forget, 3 or 4 times....  I would recycle the ones that 'passed' on the first and second try.  On the final try, the one when I was accepted, 8 passed.. it is interesting that one of the two shot rejected, was a recycled that had passed every try before... Don't know what to tell you about recycling previous submissions, but that's what happened to me.   
     Very good advice above,  absolutely stay away from a lot of blue sky, isolated on white, really any pic where the majority of it is solid color. SS is fanatical about noise.  -tom

congrats

the fire images:  i know what you mean   I have quite a few images that i did something with, or didn't to anything with, and thought.. ahh well I may as well at least try to upload it. someone might want it.