The different colored leaves help make this a very nice shot

A beautiful autumn photograph.

Very nice photograph. I wished I lived there

masterpiece !!!!!

Like a painting, crafted by a gifted artist, but then again always IMHO. I just love it!

stunning

This is stunning indeed.
I am very impressed Author

Very nice colors and presentation

Simply beautiful composition, and an awesome photo. Excellent lighting, contrast and focus. Exceptionally well done!

Very nice ! Love the black contrast.

Love the colour, love the object selection, love the lighting and all of them are made even more pronounce by having simple black background. Well done

Congrats!

Congratulations on 1st place, stunning image. You have had some great photos lately.

A bit too much of a color cast, it has a hard green tint overlying the wonderful natural color of the squash, but the photo itself, sans the plasticy, artificial color is wonderful!

Nice, but I agree with MossyB... need to lower your greens some

Thanks to both of you!

I've made adjustments as suggested, although it doesn't seem to appear the same here as it does on my CS3. I'll work on it when i get home.
Edit: Went back into camera RAW and adjusted some more, especially warming the warm colors. Hope it looks better.

Yes, this looks much better. Good luck