An excellent theme match, a unique chop and the description is just the icing on the heartbreak cake No suggestions on your entry, I think you executed it well. Good luck to you

Just one suggestion as far as linking sources: just link directly to the image, rather than the page it was found.

Join the club , I should send this one to someone i knew...

A few sources are missing: Background, button, skin texture, stitches...soften & blur the shadows a bit.

Hey CYMK, thanks for the comment, i assure you that i did hand draw the stitches, button and skin texture with no outside sources and the background pictured is from the "bride" source. If you give me a few hours or a day or so ill make an SBS as i see there is some building confusion. Thanks for the help.

this is pro work very good my favorit. good luck

nice work

Congrats,nr1

Congrats

Congratulations!

Congrats,nr1

Congrats! for 1st, Great work

Congrats for your first place and a Happy New Year, buzzy!

This is a unique entry and I comment you for your chopping skills. I was curious as to the painful severed tie you relate this to.

Do you really think birds fly like that? Ditto the above question...

to cmyk: no, birds don't fly like that....but isn't the beauty of art about being able to express and create that which isn't real? If you are discriminating based on realism, then you can't appreciate the abstract qualities of great artists like Dali

i agree with spygirl but also agree with CMYK and jawshoewhah...what is the severed tie?

CMYK: Think of surrealizm and the heart-shaped bird flight pattern really creates that. Realistic? No, but it wouldn't look as cool if it was. Still would like to know what severed tie this relates to because without it, it's hard to rate as a severed tie.

EDIT: It doesn't seem fair but if you can't relate this image to a severed tie, then it's not a severed tie and that will hurt your score.

well done author! I like this image very much. While I do not know "what" the severed tie is I think the not knowing adds to the emotion of the image. That way I am free to imagine what I wish, thus making me a participant. What is her relationship with the birds about? Does she command them with the music she plays? And command them to do what (besides fly on heart shaped patterns? well done thanx for the break from the mundane.

i'm not sure how to vote for this because i don't know what the severed tie is

Congrats,

Congrats

Congratulations!

Congrats! for 2nd

omg this is sooo good

plus i think the severed tie is breaking up with a bf because of the heart and the violin is a sad instrument (sometimes)

congrats

Congrats for your second place and a Happy New Year, Akassa!

Even though I have NO idea what your comments says, I think I know what "Severed Tie" is that you base this one which I comment you for putting into the image without telling us. However, what exactly did you chop??? There's no SBS. It doesn't look like you did anything more than just a desaturated photo on an angle and maybe a filter or two and honestly, it's against the rules and guidelines listed under the photoshop contests. Quoted from the rules and guidelines: "DON'T submit filter-only works. Take time to make something unique, it will increase your chances of winning."

Sorry to play the PXLeyes police but everybody and myself has to abide by the rules and it just makes it more fun for everybody.

@jawshoewhah: there's been some more done than just filter work. Two different images are combined together plus some extra PS work. Apart from that, a SBS is only mandatory when no external sources has been used (but of course they're always welcome).
@author: quite sad image , maybe the person would look more alone if you'd see him more in the background (so that you see that really no one is near him), but that's up to you. Good luck!

Yeah well Like I said earlier an SBS would help. Even in high res, the two sources look too perfectly blended. I guess you can take that as a compliment.

Sorry my bad for not looking at your source links.

What are you all arguing...??? I deliberately use the Japanese language so that you do not know what that means .. hhe

pain shouldn't have to be expressed in words, anyway. some events are so devastating, it's easier when we look forward instead of back.

lol author! you sure theres not a subliminal message in there as well?

kooneechoowaa!!!

actually people, there is this little thing called google translate... DUH!!!

I have left it to me .. very sad
When I ...
I really miss ...
Back someday ...
Love you ...

thats what it says. gosh!

Bddsign :: great... you've managed to solve my encryption.. But the sentence is not perfect..

Congrats,

Congrats

Congrats!!!

Congrats!

i like this picture alot but the coments were the most fun to read lol

Congrats for your third place and a Happy New Year, hidra!

So how does this image represent severed ties?

CMYK makes a good point. This is directly quoted from the contest guidelines: "Use dark images and colors to express an extremely hard time or painful event that YOU'VE experienced in the past". If you don't share that experience, then it doesn't exactly follow under the theme "Severed Tie" Personally I think the image is too dark and for all the sources you used, I kind of expected to see more. I understand that the SBS seems to be a chore and most newer people seem to put it off. I suggest the "post entry later" option so that you can submit an entry and your SBS at the same time.

i shared my experience.....hope you are better able to understand the image now.

I like it! Looks so surreal I think colours with low saturation in the background would do better, but it's a matter of taste...

Thanks again for the explanation and SBS

A tremendous story. I wish your work wasn't quite so dark because I want to study it more, but the way you have expressed yourself is awesome.

this one is like the woman thinking about all the bad things that came from her severing her ties

I feel you, very good job, shows emotion

Good chop, conveys a lot...

Thanks. I'm glad I could put that into the image when I created it, the emotion that is.

nice ideia and good work perfect on contest

Hey, if thanks to her you got into Radiohead ànd PS, then well...it must have been all worth it . Good luck!

True, very, very true Waz. There was actually a time when we were not geting along years ago and I told her I'd NEVER get into PH. Oh, the irony......

It's bad enough that she's had so much influence but every time I chop or shoot.... .....I think of her...

I don't want to even date her. I just want friendship. I just miss all the glorious times we would chop and shoot together and share so many ideas on this wonderful hobby I still so passionate about like so many other PXL members, while she just lost all interest.

it almost looks like it could go into a photography contest, good job