Very clever image.. good blending

very goofy.. and very well done.. should have a humor bar LOL good luck author

Brrr, I'm suddenly starting to freeze!

LOL...this is just way too nuts to contemplate...

very funni... hahaha

Very creative and chilling... nicely done! g/l

nice idea

This wonderful image is really good. What a great idea. Good luck!

thats actually very cool. some light work needs to be done to be perfect, but overall a great job!

thx all for the nice comments! and thx GolemAura and wildwings for favoring my entry!

evenmosbek, i know the swimmer is too bright but i think he deserves better lighting than the rest of the picture just for being so brave!

Great entry!Very nice blending!

Real nice work here

Great pic! good luck!!

BURRRRRR!

Great ides....love the surrealism

congrats Oana well deserved!!!

Congrats for your first place, Oana!

Congratulations for 1st

Congratulations Oana great picture

Congrats!, for 1st place

I knew it. I just knew it! Superb job oana!

congrats

Congrats Oana, best entry in the contest. Well deserved win

Congrats!!

congrats oana

Nice one. Congrats

Overall really nice source selection. Really like how you kept the part of the car in the reflection.

Very nice. But the snowman doesn't fit completely. I don't know exactly what it is. Or the shadows or it misses some motion (like the road)

very nice, well done!

Very nice image... I think the snow man looks good if you are looking at it while driving, but if the concept is to look in the mirror the snowman should be blurred. I think that is what Marcia saw looking back and forth from snowman to mirror to snowman.... You can't see 2 things clearly at the same time.. Great entry and g/l

Great idea, and well executed.. maybe suggest the sky on your background image with the one form the source, to help it look like it matches. And also if you look closely there's a slight blue color cast. I suggest opening the source image in photoshop and duplicating it, then going to Filter -> Blur -> Average. This gives you the overall colour of your image, then just copy that into your finished image and set the mode to colour or soft light and play around with the opacity. But like i said, great idea, and a very convincing image.

The snowman needs dome dynamic to create the moviment feeling. Nice work.

I agree about the snowman but my question is about the lanes....in the reflection it is just a two lane road...in the rest of the picture, it is like a highway with a median in the middle--so it kinda doesn't match

Thanks all for your comments and criticisms. I've added a blur to the snowman, changed the sky colour, and removed the other lane from the image outside of the mirror. (although I thought that it was a path and not a car lane). Anyways, I removed it just in case and to avoid confusion

you did a great job fixing stuff, but what happened to the snow on the trees---it's gone now?

Thanks K5683!!! I completely missed that one. I forgot to unhide my layers before saving the file.

Good idea....source fits in perfect

Congrats for your second place!

Congratulations for 2nd

congrats!!

Congrats!

Congrats!!

Nice job...bumpy ride, eh?

I'd hate to ride this road... especially on a motorcycle... ouch! g/l

y..yy..yuu..p.. ii..iit's little b...bb...bbuump...ppy...the..ee..re...

If I were driving, I'd turn around and say..."Sorry, folks we ain't goin'!"

hope this is a arctic truck road or else i feel sorry for the suspension on the car going up this road fresh and light winter look like it is here up in north (Norway) but whats happening just before the steep road there? some steers fading out perhaps? Very good job!

Smart idea

Congrats for your third place!

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats!

Congrats!!

super goose bumpy!!!!! EEEKKK!!! good luck and good nightmares !!!

Creepy... bet if you don't stop... You'll keep passing him on this nightmare road over and over... Great Job!

he he he cute

I would stop....could be a nice zombie

Love the aurora style of the sky!

Good job setting the mood, a very thought provoking image.

thanks Akassa n ponti55

i'm liking the colors!

Something magical about the color, lighting and contrast of this. Good job, author!

"Yeah, what they said!", very nice work with composing the scene.

very nice

Loving the colors and the sky treatment