I'll agree with Missy a most excellent job indeed...I think it looks a hell of a lot like upstate South Carolina very pastoral

very beautiful!

...i'm speechless

Nice image Perhaps the reflection on the road is too clear and too visible

can't really top Missy's comment.. good luck author

Thank you Missy. I know exactly what you mean. I am from South Yorkshire and when I was a Market Trader, I used to set up in Buxton every Tuesday and travelled that road on many occasions.

nice image but where is the source? white lines are now yellow?

Haha! When you said market trader I thought "Wall Street?" >>Evanmugford: check the source. The lines are yellow. Author>> This is image is beautiful. I love the rainbow.

EvanMugford.You can use as much or as little from the source as you want. There is no rule for that. I used part of the road the rest is as they say is pure artwork.

awesome!

Beautiful!

WOW!

Congrats for your first place! Great picture

Congrats, well done

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats!

Congrats!

Yet another collage of DA images....(yawn).

C'mon CMYK, that's not really fair. I think the image is great, there are a couple of parts around the model that makes it look like she's casting a shadow on the sky, but it's a great find. It's a very creative use of a difficult source to work with, so good job on that. G'luck!

It's ok ponti, cmyk46 doesn't really like my style... sorry i can't draw like you o.o so i stick with manipulations... Anyway i think the shadow you're refering to are hairs...

LOL...where would we be without the great folks at DA?

We would get stocks from other sites like sxc?

Sorry, I have nothing against this author. I'm just sick and tired of DA images that have been pre-posed and costumed being used for their prefab WOW factor.

images from DA don't look as sterile as the images on SXC. Images from DeviantArt are pre-posed, but in most cases it's the only place to find what you're looking for.

I think the picture is quite lovely... good luck author... I love how you mapped out the idea and made it come together quite well

I have to admit, DA has made me lazy. I try to use as many of my own images as possible in manipulations (because I can't draw, either), but DA is so tempting with all of its available photos to use. I think that you've done a beautiful job, Author. But I think that you should mask out the "hair/halo" behind her head.

Very lovely idea and beautifully done. Two minor things draw my attention away from the main subject of this work. The power line thru the bush should not be there and if the leaves were toned down a little bit our attention would be drawn to the main subject. I do like this a lot!

Thanks for the help laulei. Removed the light and decreased the saturation of the leaves.

i hear you, downoffthedragon. one thing you can fix: those leaves' shadows look almost like blurry stains on the image.. almost like the healing brush gone wrong if you know what i mean.. pay a bit more attention to them (especially on the bottom left part of the image)

You have masterfully put the sources together, I especially like the way the leaves look to be floating and the transperancy of the lace in the umbrella...nice work

I would have to agree with laulei - that powerline is distracting, use the eraser and chop it up a little, make it look like leaves?? Also your buildings in the background are sharper than your tree? Maybe blur them some more?

What power line? The one down? I remvoe a strong pwoer light at the top of the fence (left). I'll remove the down one too. Might remove the leaves shadows or make them less visible, thanks.

The powerline runs through the tree horizontally.

honestly CMYK46 there is more to photomanipulation than just geting images from deviantart a lot of work goes into it and i find it insulting to all photomanipulators that you would call his work "prefab" especialy since not everyone has a good camera that is capable of taking high quality images to use!

it always stinks when ya get blown away reminds me of Mary Poppins.

Sources for the background and sky etc? The line is running through the tree horizontally.

The background and sky are from he source pciture too o.o

Sorry author: thought you merged in another part of sky in there for depth.. My bad.

No problem, i've enlarged the sky, clone etc came up nicely.

Gotta agree with CMYK....although the idea is good and its fairly well put together, i hate seeing DA stock constantly used by artists that couldnt be bothered searching for the right source pics on Flcker, sxc etc.

@freejay and CMYK... what does it matter where the stock came from. I can find pre posed stock on plenty of stock sites. Your not here to judge where we get the images from but how we put it all together... this is an art contest not a stock site contest. Some of us are not so naturally blessed to draw or take photos. Some of us have no where to go to take photos, our worlds are very different. Author, I think its a nice image, and have to agree the first thing I thought of was Mary Poppins as well lol

Congrats for your second place, Akassa!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats Akassa!

Congrats!

Congrats!

congratulations on ur win

nice work nice technique and nice message,good luck, ah and wonderful image

Hope every thing is fine with one...i mean sources n stuff...this is my 3rd n final image...wanted to upload three different images for this contest...tis ok...its always nxt time...!!!

Nice to see this one again, good luck!

Welcome back,,, top marks for persistance. hope all is well with this one,

Very nice!!!!

this image is interesting indeed and theworld is cool!

very nice colour mixture... it emites the feeling of day and of night...

Thank you all....!!!

BEAUTIFUL! I find this one original piece of work

beautiful

this looks fantastic! You might want to show some bugs actually living in the cities - the whole image looks great though.

i like this image a lot... its very interesting and the usage of the source is cool very cool work on the water the ripples are nearly flawless! wow great image!

bammer on creativity... good luck author

SBS is very simple but very great!!!

Fix the spiral stairs on the back 2 towers so they actually link up, and fix some edges. Otherwise, good idea.

Very creative!

artisticly creative. well done

Congrats for your second place, Marina!

Congrats!!

congrats!

congrats

Congrats!!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats on second, nice job

Thank you all for your votes and comments!

or nightmare. it depends on how you look at it.. good job and good luck

very nice blend .. and the sbs is also well done.. if you extended it more and added more detail.. I'm sure you could take a portion and make it into a tutorial on how to make a refection in a window.. good work

nice work, good luck

a very good image but, you might want to lower the opacity on the reflection just a tad bit, good job and good luck author!

a very good concept, great idea! maybe try to make the sign more visible cause i thought it said "fairytale clowns"

LOL...don't hold your breath.

good work. shadow of text is unnecessery.

nice!!

good idea but need more work

my wedding dress will cost about $30 from the local clothing shop.... and i dont ever intend on marrying lmao