FanDAMNtastic !! This is really excellent . Perfect placement and blend. GL

JB

I like the subtle shadows on the snow, very nice touch!

nice, very clean work. GL!

Excellent use of a difficult source...GL author!

nice blending!

Very convincing scenery! The orange bird is a nice touch on the cold background.
The shadow of the tree on the snow around the bird is discontinued from the other shadow, you can consider it for the further improvement.
Very nice job!

Thanks for your kind comments!
Good observation, langstrum... I touched it up a tad.

Midwest Invasion (oh the memories

Looks perfectlt real. Well done!

really realistic! great job!!!

Great blending, and beautiful image. GL.

Excellent blending! I love the red bird detail!

Super cool realistic work...u did really really good job here author...we don't have often chance to see realistic and convincing entry's...well done man

Love it! I especially like the shadows that fall across the snow on top of the mailboxes. A really nicely done image! GL author!

The mail boxes look like they're really there. Great job.

Amazing! Looks so realistic and the sbs is detailed and nicely done

Beautifully done. Very nice composition.

Beautiful Icy landscape and over all the orange bird is the added attraction ......G/L Author.

Looks very real, well done.

I'm with everyone else. Id love to leave an original comment, but its all been said already! You really did do a convincing job of creating this one!

Congratulations!

Congrats on 2nd!

Congrats on your second place Steve, hope to see more entries like that in Pxleyes