super cool...climbing guy fits perfectly with the rest of the image....gl

Author please explain your second personal photo, that's one of the coolest things I've seen this year. What is it ?

@greymval, My second Photo is a picture of the sky outside a hospital window, if you are talking about the 3rd picture, It's a blown glass jelly fish paper weight (it comes in about 3 different sizes, and all the colors of the rainbow, this one is about the size of a softball and weighs about as much red brick. This one happens to glow in the dark. The smaller one is about the size of a baseball and the large one about the size of large grapefruit.

We used to get them the size of a bowling ball and they would have multiple jellyfish inside them but they became way to expensive and the company stopped producing them. (Mainly the shipping charges got very out of hand.)

The original ones were art pieces and sold for thousands of dollars, but when the Murano Glass blowers started to teach the Chinese glass manipulation, the prices plummeted and that was the end of that. You can still find the big ones at some museums, but because of the lowballing by the Chinese, many of the artist have turned to other designs.

http://www.satava.com/gallery/jellyfish/

This link above shows the really awesome ones, our gallery carried similar for a short period but the market couldn't handle the cost. Mainly because the economy is in the toilet

Satava are one of the best ones out there though, sigh, I miss selling them, they were so cool and never two alike

One draw back though.. you had to be very careful to check them before you put them out, you had to reject any brown/yellow tone ones because they literally looked like floating cat poop (we had to send several of them back LOL)

Wow, really impressive story, if you have more pics with the jelly, maybe you could suggest it as source. I don't know, it just looks amazing . If the company ever manages to produce again and make it popular, they could be the new Faberge eggs.

Oh there are TONS of glass jellyfish makers out there (just google Glass Jelllyfish and you'll see tons of companies that carry them, all different levels and costs, they are super cool

i really wish there were a high res of this..i'd like to see the details in the blendings of your sources. I think i'll hold my vote to see if you come up with a high res.

i find it interesting that you went monotone with it... is there a reason why??

Done

Good idea, but the vertical flip line at left of the foreground figure is too obvious, and some areas are needlessly blurry.

Nice work author...love the gray scale mood...best of luck

and now that you've put it in color..and you've put it in hi res...i have some nit picks.
one of your people (the jeans) is missing part of her leg. and there is color from the background seeping through the image.
part of the castle is sharp, and most of it is blurry. the castle was left monotone, yet..there is a part of it colored.
half your horse is overly blurry...adn the front half is overly sharp. same with parts of the background meshing. and then the girl in the white isn't blended in well at all.
there are a few things you can work on for future manipulations, as i think you are quite ambitious but you need to pay more attention to detail for hi res viewing.

Good Luck

Thank you , i will try next time

author... just a suggestion.. if you passed a very soft BLUR brush around the edges.. you'd get rid of the sharpness of the masking... and duplication the trees to make them a bit more solid would be kinda neat to see.. but it is your vision.. and as always.. IMHO... also (sorry) pay close attention to the angle of the disk the statue is standing on.. you may want to distort the disk so it matches the horizon line (use distort and perspective. just isolate the disk and play with it)...

ack.. sorry.. I hate being bossy but I really like the concept you have going here and just want to help

Nice one, but as Drivenslush said, if you soften the edges of the statue it would be better. Also, I noticed that the foot of the statue looks transparent while the rest of the statue is not.
About the tree in front of the moon, you could make it look more solid, because as it is now it looks like as if a transparent moon is in front of the tree. Even in fog, tree branches look darker inside the disk of the moon.
GL!

Edited, thank you

Very nice piece author...lovely mood...gl

FANTASTIC!

Apart of all, you also have a good taste in music!

very nice work and great song...GL author

The first rain, I like that, the raindrops are a bit hard to see though. There is some more work in those drops to let them stand out more.

Thanks Floortje, actually, after uploading I noticed here how dim the overall picture is.. I uploaded last minute so no time left for editing and uploading.