Wonderfully whimsical !

This is soo cool!!! IMHO smoke need some blur...

cute kitties Cornelia is going to love them and she may take them home too

@OLGA, THANK YOU THANK YOU, I've been staring at the smoke all day and couldn't figure out what to do (never even occurred to me to blur it) it was the only thing bugging me (thanks Nisha and SGC as well )

Also, I uploaded 13 steps in my SBS and they suddenly stopped letting me up load images, I hope it's a glitch and will be fixed soon, until then, here's the link to the smoke brushes I used

http://www.brusheezy.com/Brushes/1871-Smoke-Brushes

I hope it lets me upload the new version

EDIT: all is well and the smoke looks much much much better, very happy, thanks OLGA!!!

About smoke author - please nothing personal lol, it's only IMHO Kittens are very cute!!! Love them a lot!!!
Edited: definitely looks better

great idea!

I'm at a complete loss why this is submitted into this contest.

@trim49 take a look on SBS, maybe you will find answer there

wonderful, GL!

Love it..Pretty well done..Love the kittens..!

super cool funny positive work...well done author

Such cute cats!! Very well done!!

Great idea and job... congratulations !!!

Wow, one of your best entries gj

Nice work !!

Wow, a lot of work went in to this art work. Very cute scenery = )

This is adorable, tremendous work here! Love all the different 'cat houses', and especially the specs on the smaller kitty. I hope Grandma comes to love this chop!

Congrats!!

Congrats very cute

congratulation!!!

Congrats!!!

Congrats

Nice Job Congrats

Nice job, but the far horizon wouldn't be visible from this angle. If you crop it out and just have sky up there, this will be a great image.

awesome job author, i agreed with CMYK46...BEST OF LUCK

Thanks a lot guys for the nice comments and advices...Bob i made changes by your advice and i hope its better now...

NIce

my fave, this is simply amazing..very realistic looking! best of luck

very well blended! good luck, author!!!

Lovely sky here and manipulation =)

Bellisima! Good work, looks very realistic.

congrats on 2nd place

Congrats!!

congratulation!!!

Congrats

Congrats

oh how sweet! very nice entry!!!!!!

Nice work. The girl's fingers on the boy's back should be in shadow, and her hair shouldn't be so dark where it faces the light, but otherwise, you've done a good job with the lighting.

Nice idea and certainly apropos for Kate and Wills' wedding day. I'm going to have to disagree with MossyB about the lighting, however.

There are two visible light sources—the lantern (strong) and the moon (weak)—both of which are behind the couple which would make one expect them to be largely a silhouette. She is in fact largely a silhouette, but inconsistently, he is not. The strong lantern light seems to cast weak shadows of the couple, of the lower stair steps, of the rocks in the wall. Also, one would expect the wall to be very bright where it's only a foot or so from the lantern. Furthermore, you would think the far end of the overhang would get some lantern light while the near end would would be in shadow (as the lantern top is not clear) which is the opposite of what we find here.

The visible light sources cannot illuminate his face and hands, the top of the lantern, the wall above the overhang from which the lantern hangs, the ground immediately below the lantern (as its base is not clear). There are apparently other light sources, but it's odd that the brightness on his face doesn't result in any shadow on the steps, for example.

More generally, the large, dramatically lit wall distracts one's attention from the real focus of the kissing couple. Shadowy edges with lit center would be more compelling. Deleting the lantern and imagining a streetlight behind the viewer might be more effective.

Congrats again!!

congratulation!!!

Congrats buddy.. good job

Congrats

looks realistic! well done!

cool work author...gl

very convincing!

Is there any way we can stop it, I mean the 2012 thing? Can we just jump into 2013. Wew! What a big leap.. lol!

Very nice. Would be better without the text IMHO.

Agree with sgc,in regard to text..Looks good otherwise..GL author

FAVEEE!!

Very nice work author...work a bit more on a shadow...now is to sharp...blur the edges and curve the part that stretch from the stairs to the wall...everything else is great...sorry for the nit picks...best of luck

thnx Erathion, i appreciate the comments