I understand the bird's grumpy face, cause there's not much to eat there in that field . The oil filter doesnt work very well for me, or at least I dont see much added compared to without the filter. Also, the bird looks a bit pasted. That's imo mainly because of a conflict between light. Looking at the tree, there's a strong light coming from left three quarter behind. Therefore you'd expect the bird getting the light from the same direction. Is it possible to adjust that? Good luck!

I think the picture doesn't necessarily need the text above the gate because everyone can see the name also above the whole picture. In my opinion it would be better without the text.

If you're lighting one source with the light source of another, try to use only the light colour. In this case the only part of the sunset light affecting the archway would be the brightest yellow; and considering the archway is generally lighter in colour than the sunset to begin with it wouldn't be affected by it very much.

Nice idea btw.

you need to post the image in the SBS

Go to your My contest link and select the edit entry -- you can then upload a copy of the image used -- you may want to lower the quailty of the pictuce to speed the upload.if the orginal image is very large

5.3. Use of Personal Images as Source: If you use your own personal images, the uncut source must be placed in the step by step with an explanation that it is your image.
Go to My stuff>My contest entries>Edit entry.

Do you realize an actual vulture would be more than twice the size of her head?

Aha She's not my girlfriend and i edited the image myself, your just jealous.

wow, maybe you should check Spaceranger`s portfolio and see the kind of quality expected. Maybe then you wont mistake his good advice for jealousy.
Oh and it`s "you`re just jealous"... if you feel the need to foolishly insult a respected artist try to be grammatically correct.

How the hell did this get ANY votes?