Statue at childrens park

This is at a local childrens park in town. C&C welcomed. Thanks

I like your overall composition, but the background is killing me. Between the very busy bokeh, the ugly foliage color, and the aquamarine sky, it is really distracting. I would select the background, use the lens blur filter in photoshop to smooth the background, I would also make thebackground yellows more green, the sky more blue, and desaturate and maybe darken a tad to tone it down. I would also bump the shadows on the statue to make them a bit darker, and to me it looks like there might be a slight green hue to the image as well.

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I had a go at it, if you want me to post it you need to go to your profile and set image editing to ok.

Post away. BTW this is also my first HDR. This is 5 images merged into HDR Pro in CS5.