Wow....that is awesome. Very powerful and great idea.

Good job making the bird. SBS could be more complete.

great image. also sbs is explicit enough, it't not a tutorial but a sbs after all. good kuck to you.

Bravo! The feathers looks great...

Great work! Very creative.

Very nice work...good luck author

well done

Congrats for your first place, Erikuri! Great composition and idea

congrats on number ONE.. woo hoooo

Congrats, lovely work

Thank you all!

Congrats! for your win. Cute entry

Congratz to 1st!!!

Congratulations for 1st

congrats.

Congrats!

A lot of work here, nice job.

wonderful !

Great job author...At my opinion small flowers make a distraction...otherwise fabulous work...good luck

Very neat! I love the way you "dyed" her hair...

sweet! i think the small flowers adds to the mood. jst my 2 cents

Congrats for your second place, Chakra!

Congrats! for 2nd place

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!

Wow! Great work!

hehehe.. mountain dew works better LOLOLOL.. hehehe.. great job

But don't drink coffee after 7 o'clock pm, it may cause insomnia... Beautiful work!

beautiful ... imo bowling ball retracts from the subtle beauty of the image ...high marks from me though

Great job...well done author

Thank you guys.. Unfortunately I DO drink coffe after 7 pm... A LOT actually... :P but I'm glad you liked my work.

You aren't the only one

Congrats for your third place, MrLuna! Good to see you entering again

Congrats! for 3rd

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats!

Thanx ! I didn't know I was being missed around here !! I'll try to login more often now...

Nice work over all, but you didn't really use the source, just pasted it in.

thanks for the comment. "Pasting" is such a harsh word in photoshop. I cropped, blended, transformed, and added a stem to the flower. Granted it's not the biggest object, but I was hoping it would draw the most attention, given that it has the most color. It's better appreciated when you see it in full view.

Very mysterious mood! I love the way you did the trees! Looking at the scene, you are level 10++++... Better if you upload your sbs.

i agree w/ cmyk and nator. i once entered the cork screw contest and made the screw as unicorn horn; it was pulled because of minimal souce used and it was way larger in percentage to the whole image than this. this is very good image though...if it's in the beach branch contest this would be the one i'd put the highest score in. ;P

nice image ... but imo poor use of source

Thank you all for your comments. If you see the entry as is, yes the source looks really small, but if you see it in it's full size view 1600x1200 then you can see the flower better and how it fits within the setting. I originally wanted to use it for the branches contest, but I'm new here and have not leveled up yet. In fact this is my first contest.

1st contest...wow. you'll be one of the top contender here then lol

Kinda CRB'd the source IMO

@ ricky777, thanks! I'm really here just to share what I make and see what others have created. That's what I enjoy the most. @ jawshoewhah, CRB'd ? I don't know what that stands for.

ooohhh nice job

nicely done ,,cool

i just noticed the green area in the bottom of the t-shirt need some adjustjment

very very good job and perfect blend...well done author

VERY nicely done

I want a T like that! Very nicely done...

good one

very neat ... well done