Thanks BWR.

Getting a score close to yours is a high achievement in my mind since I think your work is amongst the best I have seen. I still am trying to beat my own top score though. Seems to be a tough goal to achieve.

Honestly I liked this one better than your Water Weight Lifter "The power of water". Just personal taste, but this one to me had more wow. I voted higher on this one.

keep going and one day you will top it. The stars have to align properly is all.

Thanks for all your encouragement BWR.

Thank you very much filantrop.

It was hard to come up with any "theme" or "story" using those 4 sources. I loved that elephant source and built the Chop around it. Wasn't really planning on using that background, but that cliff was finagled in there and since the source background had a house in it, I made a shoe house. Was stuck at that point for most of the day on how to fit a bag into the scene. I had a (human) baby hanging in that bag off a tree branch which looked OK, but then tried the baby elephant in the bag. It was then that I managed to find the strongest stork ever and after some consultation, the stork said it could in fact "deliver" the baby elephant.

Just as well since we couldn't have a orphaned elephant. That would create a very sad mother.

Mooooohalo!!

Thank you thank you filantrop

Believe me Skyangel, it's much quicker to shoot the elements you need for the contest in the angle you want it it to be, then searching for free pictures, witch always ends into a different angle then the rest of the compilation. In my case that is.

And for the bag with the flame, the entrance of the bag was big.

You are right about that but not all graphic artists are also photographers so some are forced to do the hard yards to find free resources and manipulate them to suit.
I love your sunset photo by the way.
Good luck in the contest.

I got a kick outa that too. Good use of that photo LifetimeDamage