Too. Much. Patience.

My mouse would've been a pulp of wires and metal on the floor by the end of it. Nice work

just give some motion and its perfect!

no, no! Don't give it motion because then it'll look like a photograph that was taken with a crappy camera, not a good one with fast shutter speed. You did a great job on this. Only one tiny thing though. One seagull on the left is in "front" of the weeds so it seems like it would look a bit bigger if it was that low and that close. I could be wrong though~ it's just how I see it.

NO motion needed...and you had a LOT more patience than I did.

Thanks so much everyone! I almost didn't enter this image LOL Glad to know I succeeded in making it realistic Thanks for all the comments

Wow, im impressed ! Great patience and works with that, high marks from me

Wow Can i keep this as a wallpapers..coz its really pretty..!!GL and real high votes from me..

Thanks so much Mishti and you are more than welcome to use it for a wallpaper

seeing this entry, it just came to my mind that this one could be the winner......no doubt,....or at least one of the best three......

One of my favorites.... looks real good.... good luck.

Stunning! Love the mood

nice clean work with cool perspective...best of luck

Congrats, lovely work

Congratulations! Beautiful entry..

Congrats for your first place, Christy!

Thanks Everyone Glad I entered now LOL

Congrats...

Congrats!!

great work congrats!!

Congrats on your first 1st!

This is very attractive!!! I'm not a big fan of skulls but they do make for awesome photography/photoshop and things and this is right up there with the best IMO

I think its really good author, different lol, nice to see the gulls doing something useful

Goodluck

Some edges are too hard, others too blurry. Good idea, though.

interesting idea.... kind of dark, but good.... good luck.

nice mood...gl

Congrats for our second place, Layerstack!

Congrats...

Congrats!!

The *PHRASE" is pretty well executed author..Love the feel..Could you give the clocks lil more depth??..They look flat now..But other than that it looks beautiful.GL

Flying time..... good idea.... good luck.

And also congrats for your third place!

Congrats...

Congrats again for 2nd and 3rd!!

this looks good.

http://www.pxleyes.com/images/users/L/Lelaina/474/fullsize/4a6f3af243089.jpg ...link of the outside source

I always like Lelaina's work...the sunsets are breathtaking. You did something different here. Not using the seagulls at all, but IMHO one of them against the brilliance of the sunset, like a silhouette, should have been outstanding. Just an opininon... good luck.

lol, at first I was like wait, I don't see any seagulls, and then I was like oh yeah you can use anything in the image, hello! =) Nice spin on it.

very neat work...gl

Try to make some depht inside the skull - burn/ dodge.

Thanks, greymval, I knew it needed "something," but couldn't put my finger on it.

i think adding a ridge along where the face was "removed" would help add to the dimension of the piece. right now, it looks like his face was paper thin.
some softening back on the horizon line would help blend it together as well, maybe use a soft edged eraser set at a 15% opacity just to soften the edge a bit and show some of his sweater through the tree line.
and otherwise, i like it. original concept...the title is suiting. You might think about softening your sunrays back there so they aren't so bold. but thats just a suggestion.
Good Luck

It looks real cool.... I like your idea... good luck.

Triiipy!!!! GL!