Nice .... Very Nice
the blur gor the background metals is good ..
good marks from me ....

good technique! and love that metal material...

Nice render & illusion, Author! I knew it was you. Like!

GL

Wow, awesome!!..........cool work!........GL!

Good job, this one's makin my eyes go crazy!

Congrats, fabulous work

Congrats!!! really mind blowing!

Congratulations for your fist place.
Really nice job! Visually very crazy!

It's defenitly disorientates the eyes

congrats! 'no horse run' = great!

Bada$$!!!

The simplicity is awesome!

Great stuff, bravo!!

now my EYES are all googly.. hehehe.. great job

This is a fine tribute to Escher. He would have liked this one.
I love it. High marks from me Author.

Very, very nice composition & techniques, Author! Love it & fave it!

Simply brilliant

Hi @mircea, I appreciate your comment, maybe you have reason in your point of view. In this simple composition I've worked on things that I've learned years ago on the School of Arts and then in the Graphic Design School.
This is a tribute to Escher, and I'm think I'm loyal to his style.
Make the figure bigger? Why? Am I breaking any rules of composition? No, I wanted to fill with silences the figure
Add color or new textures? Never in this composition, this is a tribute to Escher, if you know this artist then you know what's the point in my reasons.
I continue in the next comment:

Continue to @mircea: This is only 3 planes, I know, 3 minutes, I know, but this don't make this work worse than another renders I've done before that took me several hours, the time it took is not a reason to anathematize this work.
I'm surprised by the previous comments too, I've just starting to learn the 3D world but I think maybe the previous commenters catched the essence of my particular tribute and they appreciate the simplicity of forms, color and composition.
The last point: I've never googled "impossible" and take the first result, Escher is one of my favorite graphic artists.

Whatever the case even a simple thing can be great. Bauhaus
There are other very good entries in this contest and I love this type of stuff.
You just sit here and bash this entry for its simplicity, just wondering how many entries you got in here mircea. Everyone is learning here so that last sentence mentioning tracing? and wonder? balderdash.
lovely comments.

No mircea you have not said great and this is your opinion, I said what i needed to you in a pm.
I don't care to argue on a members entry. You said your piece now and I said mine.
Let the voters decide.

Cheers.

High resolution is worth a peek.....

Beautiful image, but I can't figure out what the green lump inside the bottle is supposed to be.

Is that water in front of the bottle on the wood?

Alright .... Nice work ... but I can't see any thing impossible in this ....

Interesting idea. Without knowing that it is an egg in the bottle it becomes a little confusing. That being said, it would be impossible for there to be an egg in that bottle, and the image is technically sound. Hi marks from me!

The "ridge" at the bottom is why I didn't think it was an egg. There is no warp in the glass there, so it looked like a weird green glob.
The feather made me think it was an ink bottle, so the green glob could possibly be a lump of bad ink...Since the bottle is amber, a "green" egg shell is also a bit visually unguessable...jeez...

Unlike the SBS fanatics, I feel the image should effectively convey its message without having to be explained. I only check the SBS if I'm interested in how something was created...

I love this image, good luck author (quite elegant)

When I saw the ridge at the bottom of the "egg" I thought that there might be some liquid in the bottle. There is something else in there. Reguardless of whether it is an egg or not, it is certainly not a liquid. If it were a liquid, like a blob of ink, it would take on the shape of the bottle. If it were ink suspended in another liquid it would disperse. Unless, maybe it does not mix with the solvant, like oil and water. Either way, it still looks like a solid to me. With or without the description, it looks impossible to me.

Oh ... sorry ... yes ...egg in a bottle
yes that is impossible ....
high marks from me ......

GL

Technical issues aside, it sure looks like an egg inside a glass bottle to me. Fits the contest theme perfectly.

It would have looked better if the doorways were open or had handles. This way just looks like the staircases all run up to solid walls...

it's a very good idea ... but I guess you didn't look to the original picture first ...
but the over all design is good
Good Luck

@Mossy: Good idea. I might add that in, Thanks.

@Bitmap: I did look but at the same time wanted to put my own spin onto the image. I could have studied a picture of the original and slowly but surely replicated it as close as possible but that would not be an exercise in my creativity, rather just a copy and paste job.

nice blur, increase the distance perception, GL!

Nice one!