Cool! I ate a big calamari tube stuffed with shrimp in a white sauce with sourdough toast at a restaurant there while on business in the early 90's(for breakfast). It was awesome!

I digress. I've never tried this technique before, although I want to, but yours looks pretty good!

give your shots really different titles or they will be pulled because you are giving away who the author is by keeping them so close in names!
awesome shots though.

play with contrast and HDR toning... this has some major potential (in the tute you can add saturation.. I really like where this is going.. it's a very neat image... good luck

Very nice, but the lack of resolution in the source pic diminishes the impact of your work by diminishing the contrast between the in-focus and out-of-focus portions.

Dan, pretty well stuck with this image,, as it was taken a few years back from a very long distance away, and with a lower resolution (mega-pixel) camera.. But I do appreciate the comments

very good

cool work author....gl

After using polar coordinates filter you should clean up hard lines at top middle of image using either clone stamp, healing brush or some other means. Just trying to help

interesting work author...gl