Too cool.

COOL

Creative........Great work Author..........G/L.

Great detail! Really nice job.. the shadow seems wrong to me, perhaps fade the opacity with a gradient as it gets further from the light. Good luck!

Very very nice work...great imagination and details...good luck author.

Very very nice indeed Tops!

Great use of the imagination. Personally I would have tried to incorperate the original glass a little bit more as far as it's original look but still a very imaginative.

Cool one.

Superb!!!

yea! GO THE BIKERS. love this artistic and creative image. lots of work but it has paid off.

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats for your first place, Verikakis!

Congrats on your 1st!

Great chop! congratulations

congrats! for 1st place. Awesome

Thanks to all for the comments and favs

Congrats for your first place

Great work! Congratulations!

Seriously great work! Loads of effort went into this and by damn its worth it!!

Not sure about the background, but the foreground is sweet.
EDIT: Lookin' better!

Love it! Beautiful job author. Agree with CMYK about the background...perhaps use what you have and do a nice 'twirl' filter to it...or Gaussian blur it way more...just a thought.

one thing.. AWESOME!

thanks, this has now been corrected, background has changed for the better

Oh beautiful....... love the detail on the roses.

Very very nice work author...with this background is way better...good luck

This is absolutely amazing!

Stunningle well done

Perfect!!!

Beautiful and very creative. : )

well done and excellent use of the source

great and original one

Looks ok.

Super cool!

Excellent Idea and looks fantastic

Very cool!!! Great use of source!

had to add this to my favs... lovely artistic entry. the red is just beautiful in colour contrast of the image.

Just one of those entries that looks stunningly simple - no need to overdo it, just rely on the skill. Awesome job and top marks!

very beautiful !

Very creative.....well done......Good Luck Author.

Congratulations for 2nd, really great work, keep it up.

Congrats for yxour second place, PhotoRepair!

Thanks to everyone who voted!

This was definitely one of my favorites and you used the source so well. Congrats on your placeent.

congrats!

congrats!

Congrats

Truly a great composition. Really like its simplicity yet...it has tons of style. Perhaps if you lighten the stems in the water a bit more...it'll give a bit more difference to dry and wet. Nice job!

EDIT: Absolutely wonderful! Love the changes!

Thanks for your suggestions guys. I'll see about making changes. Robvdn, I didn't make any edge. It's the texture itself. Maybe I've got to get rid of this edge. About making the stems longer, wouldn't the roses go down since they are inside the glass?
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Changed... Lightened the submerse stems and got rid of the edge on the texture.

Nice job!!!

Nice job!!!

sexy image man , nice concept

The stem wouldn't look straight entering water--refraction would make it look bent.

I agree Hawkeye, but as the stems are almost straight, the refraction would be insignificant at the rate of 1.33

One of the best entry's...Bottom part of the roses maybe demands a bit more work...from this angle stalk don't look like its finished there..beside that great work author...high mark's from me

Okay, applied some shadow to the glass left side following Nator's suggestion. Thank you Erathion! Changed the stems' end. I erased the glass reflection since there is no polished surface.

Nicely done and good use of the source. I think you got it right GL to you.

this one is the better entry

Nice composition.

Thanks a lot for your comments people Always welcome!

Fantastic work!!!

lots of work here author. you have taken on feedback well.. Good on you. IT has made a nice difference to the image. high marks from me.

very niceeee!!

great concept!

Excellent.......G/L Author.

Congrats for 3rd!!!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats for your third place, Divair!

Congrats on your placement! Was definitely one of my faves in this contest.

congrats!

congrats!

Congrats

Congratulations! Great job

absolutely fantastic work, would have been worthy of a win!

Congrats, nice image!

Exquisite entry! So beautiful!

this is so beautiful

nice thinkin

great job

very nice! i really like this, anything well done with a heart on it makes me smile!

Beautiful. Very nice work author

Great Imagination!

great work on the glass. the flowers and foliage is beautifully done. you have created something very artistic and beautiful to the eye.

great entry !

Excellent and well done........G/L Author.

Congrats for your fourth place

That looks like the grinch in the smoke. Great work.

Good idea, but i think that the image inside the cup is a bit too compressed, i also think that the ladder should be abit thicker and with straight lines. Good luck though, it's a wonderful idea.. great reflection!

Nice concept and design.

Thanks for the great compliments and tips.

Ladder should have some thickness, and the reflection is wrong, it should lean to the right...

Thanks for the tip, fixed the F#*?>%%$# ladder

cmyk had a good point with the reflection.

all changes are good.. thats why i wait to vote... much better now.