Good thinking...love the 3 dimensionality!

Clever

LMAO!!!! Brilliant. Love it!

Congrats!!

LOL! I'm from Wisconsin but was raised in Mn. This is funny stuff!

Oops! Missed citing the football by Penny Bubar http://www.sxc.hu/photo/375745

Extra votes for concept and humour

Congrats Dan

Congrats Dan , that's cute

Congrats! Great idea, great colors =)

Congrats!!

Congrats for the nice composition! Love it!

Excellent good luck

really nice idea, and good performance

well done job... good luck author..

Fantastic idea and very very good work.Maybe u have to work a bit more on the letters and the edge of the poster.Any way,this is great work...good luck author

wow! great use of the sources...i like this one...

good one

clever and creative idea

Yes, agree with Nator. Would be nice with a bit of an "old" look. Very creative otherwise.

I toned down the intensity of the poster's colors to make it look more like it's been out in the sun for a while.

Yeah that's nice now. Good work!

Great idea

and one minute thing.. can you blur the shadow of the paper boat a little.. its kinda too sharp..

Yep, I agree with iquraishi; comparing to the bar shadow, paper boat shadow is a bit sharp... just blur it slightly. It's a very realistic work, I like it. And pls, upload it in high res!

yes please upload the high res... we would love to look such a cool work in better resolution and details..

Really nice entry, very well done. GL

The hi-res was too huge. I started with the hi-res version of the 'meter guard' in the lower right corner and then made a canvas more than nine times bigger. Maybe there's a way to make a 'higher res'-but-not-quite-hi-res version [other than using 'Save for Web & Devices' which apparently is limited in the size of original pic it can handle], but I think it's too late to upload it in any event. [BTW I did blur the paper-boat shadow slightly, but apparently not enough. Blending into the existing post shadow was an issue. Distractions prevented me from trying harder before the contest ended.]

For future refference, if you image is too high for high res, make it a little smaller. But this works. GL!

Congrats

Congrats for your first place, Dan!

Congrats, really nice work

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Congrats! Very nice image. Very creative. Definately deservent of 1st.

Congrats! for 1st place

congrats

very well done.. looks just like the ones on the plains of the midwest.. good luck

I would so go to a polka-palooza! haha! Well done!

Hip Hop Polka????? HAHAHA thats funny..

Nice job!

Very well done!

Very nicely executed!! You've done a convincing job on this creation. GL

it's kinda hard to read in places

it's kinda hard to read in places but overall neat

good idea, nobody make something like this

awesome! i think its convincing and creative. love the idea of putting it along side a barn. where else would a polka-palooza advertise?? GL!

Congrats for your third place, Dan!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congratulations

Congrats!

congrats!

Congrats!!

Congratulations!!!

very cool work author,i like black and white choice...best of luck

It's a charming entry! Very nice...

i really like this one! wonderful! my cat would just eat the owl and smile! good luck!

reflections are very well done

100% on the spot author well done and GL

Congrats for your second place!

Congratulations, Dan!

Congrats! for 2nd place

Congrats

Congrats Dan...

Congrats!

Congrats!!