Awesome!!

Fabulous! Since I don't know photography, did you photoshop it also? How did you treat it? Thanks for sharing.

No my friend.No PS at all.
The set up goes like this...
A mirror,1 flashlight & a external flash.
1 piece of a puzzle.
Nikon D90 with 50mm f/1.8 AF Nikkor lens.
Spot metering
F:11
3 sec exposure
iso 125
Using spot metering the camera gets light ONLY from the spot that you want...in this case the puzzle piece so the b/g gets all black!
Increase contrast 2 in PS & thats all.

I love everything about this entry!

so nice as always

Lovely, and the author is no surprise.

Well thought out idea.. the image looks fantastic.

Great simplicity. superb idea..

The "hard" part was NOT .
the set up or the IDEA but to get the lighting exactly as i wanted it.
You see the puzzle's surface is VERY very small to manage it.
To small to give the 3D feeling as accurate as possible!
I try 25-30 times until i get it right (for my taste at least).
The light on the right is the flashlight & the one on the left is the external flash.
The problem was the flash cause it had to light the piece in a way that it wouldn't be BOH (blow out highlights) but in the same time keeps it's 3 dimensional view.

Nice 1! GL!

great lighting, good idea and execution...

Should be the only thing in the photo?

this reminds me of one of those scenes where the bad guy is sitting on a chair in a room with just a light above him and is being questioned. Nice Job.

Excellent shot.. Friiskiwi may be right about the theme, but it's a great idea and a well executed image nonetheless.

REALLY nice. Is that on a pane of glass or something?

Holy crap that is sweet!!!

Wonderful thinking here...very nice indeed, good execution.

well done

Like the idea

Ok I keep coming back to look at this, I've gotta say I'm jealous Author. This is amazing IMO, the creativity and execution is incredible. I love the DOF on this, and if it was in fact taken on a piece of glass as kyricom suggests then the lighting is amazing, great observation of the family of angles!

Thanks everyone.... yes... it was on a piece of glass... if you look close at the upper right "corner" you can see the reflection. Not allowed to PS it out. That was the hardest... no reflection. Took many many shots and had to look to the computer screen to make sure none were there. Lighting was same way.. shoot, look, hate it... shoot again LOL. @Locks.... will have to google "family of angles" LOL!!!!

Beautiful

Wow

Good one

Stunning

I love how n the high-res you can see some iridescence on the fluffy parts.

Fantastic idea author... really excellent work.

superb!

Nice one..

Ah you never fail to surprise me Author! Awesome job

lol. very clever! love it!!

good thinking here and nicely done...another "wish I'd thought of that first " situations....

ha ha! Perfect. Great image!

GREAT! Love the contrast in the image as well as the playful take on the theme.

well thought!!! love it!

lol clever

This has got to be one of the best I've seen. GL!