Very surrealistic approach and a lovely representation of the idiom... great job!

i agree!! great job!!... somethin bout the bottom of that tree looks a little off to me... could just be me though.. Great Work!!

I don't often mark things as my favourites unless they keep me coming back to see it.. and every 30 minutes or so i find myself staring at this again and again... Wow.

Thank you very much! I touched up the base of the tree westfall.

much better!.. and i agree... this one draws me back as well

I'm unfamiliar with the idiom, so I appreciated the explanation. The wooden landscape is lovely, but I don't get why the figure is also made of wood.

It just seemed to be fitting in the world of wood that I created. The figures being made of wood has no significance towards the idiom, only to the piece.

Funny image the sky looks very nice. I would suggest to change the shadows. The shadow of the man is way to big and comes to far to the front, while the shadow of the tree isn't getting any close to that and it's even higher. Removing the shadow on the front hill and sharpening the edge of the tree shadow (also stretch the shadow more downwards without fading it out) would finish the job Good luck!

it is very nice work ,good luck

I am glad so many people like this entry

Ressiv, I know the shadows are off a bit, I retweaked them but I am going to let this entry ride like it is. Once the contest is over I will upload my adjusted to my profile.

I think I kind of like how the shadows don't totally match the logic of the lighting.

good luck

Congrats

Congrats for your first place, Phubar!

Holy crap I actually won a contest! Awessome, thanks for the votes everyone!

Congratulations for 1st, really nice pic.

congrats!!

Congrats, a lovely piece of work

Congrats for the 1st place . . . .

Congrats sweetie!

Congrats! for 1st place

Great work! CONGRATS!!!

congrats!

congrats on 1st place....

Congrats phubar! Well deserved win

Really nice atmosphere, and very good shading. High resolution is really excellent. The hand on the left is a tap "over-warped" near the edge which leads to a loss of resolution but the rest is excellent. Great way of thinking and very good image. Good luck!

Edit: Perfect!

Thanks Ponti, that arm was a bit weak so I made a new one. I think this one looks much better

Very cool work author.With bad source u'r created great image...Good luck

great work with the source......... all the best to u .......

great job

Nice chop! GL!

Great job, wonderful entry. Best of luck to you!!

Congratulations for 2nd

congrats ..............

Congrats!!

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats!

nice textures... congrats..

beautiful work .......... Gl ....

i make it tha same idea and now ,good luck for you becaous i'm out

Very nice work author...good luck

Nice chop and thanks for not making it another annoying "anti cigarette" ad.

Nicely done. gl

nice quiet place!!! maybe add a little bit of sparkle on the reflection in the water

Is that a little better? I was trying to do something like that but didn't really know how. There is a mangled attempt from a tutorial I found.

that looks a bit better... a high res would be helpful.

I will get used to this site eventually. I uploaded again with a high res. If you have any tips on how to do a nice moonlight reflection I would appreciate it.

i would use a simple splatter brush. white as the color... vary the opacity as you paint.. then change the blend mode of your reflection layer to overlay.. .. trick is not to over do it

I think that looks a bit better. Thank you so much for the help. I haven't played with photoshop in a couple of years so I am a bit rusty.

very nice!

Nice job on the cloning. You're new I'm assuming. When I started here it was a little tough, but I have figured out the site a lot better than I use to. If you want to add some moonlight to the water. Try using the dodge tool. Adjust the opacity of the dodge to about 40% and mess around with the brush settings. And to make it look really good. Try to spread the light across the water and fade it as it gets closer to side. Do you know what I mean?

romantic,and nice

Thanks Jaescoe. I tried a little of that and re-uploaded. I used to play here before the switch to pxleyes but that profile I guess was lost. It has been about 2 years though.

Thats original I think it's good of you to try to learn from other peoples suggestions. Good luck!

good luck

nice idea

Fix your links...
Edit: Links OK now.

Are they working now? All I did was added the http:// to them. They work fine for me.

Black humour!

nice