Awesome effect, the internal lighting really makes this most interesting!

i love the monochrome feel to it

I think this is a great shot. Love the DOF too. From a photography standpoint this is really good, just personally I'm not sure that this is a great example of stock photography.

Thx Ray. I made a change. Trying to grasp this concept of "stock".

I guess its easier to look at pictures as potential stock when you have experience chopping them up . I think the keys are a strong subject of focus (which is all in focus), generally avoid anything that is too 'busy' or moving, OOF. I like this one because of the stong lines and various shapes. You could twist this pic in to a number of other objects.

My personal view on this would be to crop out some of the peripheral objects, such as the care & tree to give a stronger focus on the subject. But this is a better example of stock photography in my view. For inspiration as to what stock photography looks like check out one of rht many pages like shutterstock, sxc.hu. There are a heap of links in the 'resources' tab at the top of the page.

Thanks so much for your advice Ray!! Much appreciated. I have made the suggested crop.

I guess it would be very chaotic if you try to cross that field ^^

this is a wonderful picture

beautiful photograph, but they look pretty orderly to me.

What a shot !!! Great one !

Nice execution! GL!

I love the photography of his shoot, beautiful, the lighting is perfect the colours too ... nicely captured author.

stunning shot, but I don't see chaos here, just herd like behaviour.

Perhaps you had to be there Ade, but trust me, it was certainly chaos. They just walk into each other, push around, at one point they got scared of something and did a short stamped, shame I got no photos of that but it was certainly chaotic in general.

This is a great photo, I almost think it is wasted on this competition topic though.

wilder beasts are a crazy breed and I agree with fat mike completely.
Very nice shot Author.

Thanks for all the positive comments guys!

it is amazing how the top part of the photo looks like a painting.

so it might be, but not in this shot.........it is dark and lifeless!

I got to agree. From where I'm sitting it looks like a bloody body organ cut from the whole and then just dropped on a plate. I am thinking more commonly known mouth-watering foods would have been better for this contest, rather than the rare that are well, not as well known.

I agree with u all.. However, I wanted to showcase a dish which is really mouth watering..