Please tell us why.

Seems very peaceful.

This is just so beautiful and moody

I love the lamp!! Great job!

Very nice composition and lighting

lovely composition

Agreed, this is a very well put together scene and quite different from most of the other entries we've been seeing. Excellent work!

Cool mood author!

Congratulations on 1st place, a wonderful scene and photograph, as always.

Congrats, great shot = )

Congratulations

Congrats...it is a beautiful photo!

Congrats !

Here i think you should use a dark background, and a sepia tone in the instrument.

It would be good if you uploaded a higher res of you images, voting is likely to be higher. If your images are very bid you can always reduce them a little before uploading.

Great advice, friiskiwi. While not always the case, upload a high res DOES increase your chances of getting a higher vote from some users. Trialboj has a good idea as well; that splotchy green backdrop looks like its stained with something. Hope this helps! All the best!

Thank you very much everyone

Nice one..

Great effect

great.

Looks like Warhol's apartment

I know that feeling, great idea

I've only been staring at these tickets for nearly a year. This contest was necessary for me to get this idea, so thank you.

I would of had to drive to Wyoming to acquire the same idea

Oh, BTW, nice close-up and DOF in this shot. GL!

And I take it wouldn't be all too close to where you live. I noticed the comment about you not being able to play lottery where you live.

Thank you. This was the last time I do this kind of a photograph without a tripod though. I'm glad my effort was worth it.

Are you SURE? Did you check the numbers more than once?

Kyricom, sadly yes. I checked it in person with the machine, more than once. Nothing, nothing at all.