I think it just got stuck xD

No Akassa, He's playing Hide and Seek.. his other 10 friends are already hiding in the tea house

I should have put that in my description.. thanks Akassa.. all fixed

Quite funny, but there's maybe something with the shadow you can fix. The elephant seems to be standing diagonal in the tea house, with his butt more or less against the front side of the house. However, the way the shadow is right now, it looks like his whole body is leaning against that side, which is kinda hard. If you can make the shadow a bit bigger and softer the more it's away from that front side, it would look more like he's in the room. Good luck!

thanks WAZ, I tried to fix it (I returned the elephant back to it's original color and enlarged the shadow as per your suggestion (does look better)) Big problem is in the original tea house picture.. there was a super bright spotlight inside the tea room while my flash pushed back at me off the pole (I had no Idea I was going to try to put an elephant in there, but if i did, I would have taken it with no flash.. but I think it looks better now thanks dude

very creative idea

Clever, clever. Too bad I saw this too late to vote. Congratulations!

LOL... I kinda find the whole scene funny... However the knights fighting on the bridge might need some shadow below their feet...

Also the knight on the right( in the bridge) need some masking between his arm...

Edit: Ahhhhh.. A stalemate... Nice... And the pic looks better now...

Thanks for the advice.... I think I fixed it!? Primarily I was trying to get rid of the rails and make it look good!? The picture is a chess metaphor kings fighting and last soldiers are the knights on the horses.... it should be a draw and no one wins.

this is just a great take on the source.. good luck (you are an old soul)

I'd lose the mounted knight in the background...it looks just like what it is: a statue, and placing it between the two fighting figures is distracting. Also, you lost some of the foreground knight's sword.

Looks better now...good luck.

Aww now it's not a stalemate anymore... I liked the previous one better... This one fine as well( I already had cast my vote, so doesn't matter)... However instead of removing that knight you could have done an another thing...

But no need to edit it anymore, cause too much editing can ruin the feel of the picture... Just saying this so you can apply this to an another image...

Instead of removing that horse rider, you could have blurred him a bit and also blur the background( blur the background more than you blur the horse rider in the back...)

And then you could have blurred the horse rider in the front as well... This would have created a nice dof and more focus would have been drawn to those two swordsman on the ground...

As I said no need to edit it anymore... Was just giving an example...

arkncheeze.... I thought about CMYK46 remarks and made adjustments... with my metaphor for chess as the main thought, I'm a chess dork, and even with removing the knight from the background it's still a draw in chess unless the lonely king makes an obvious blunder... lol....thanks for the comments and advice it's truly appreciate and helpfull...hopefully hear from you again.

This is great! Love the imagination, author! Shadows of foreground knight would be better darkened a bit more.

EDIT: Foreground Knight looks excellent now! Great job!

Very cool! Some shadows on the front knight will be nice! And maybe you should blur the front knight to add some "Depth of Field feel" to the image Good Luck

cute daisies

Good job, very nice.

Seems like The Daisy Chicks sing with a lot of passion Especially the one in the middle and the one on her right side. I'd like to have one of the cute microphones. Good luck!

wow wow wow.... i would sing along if i knew what song they were screaming out lol

this is so cute and creative!

rofl, great idea!

I had a busy, tiring day-needed a good laugh and this did it!!! Love it!!!

very cool BTW which song are they singing LOL

err umm..Not Ready to Make Nice.... LOL.. that's what I see LOL

This is soooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this would be hilarious if you could find a shirt with GWAR on it

This is too too funny! I love it!

nice

The edges of the woman aren't sharp enough; also the lines from the wood don't follow the curves in the woman so they look fake.

great idea, very funny! Good work on the shadows

Superb work! The attention to detail is excellent!

hehehe.. crooked arrows in the sbs LOL (super duper job)

Love the bugs!

nice work

nice work.

great job, well done

Great job! The butterflies look so beautiful and you even managed it to make the bugs look beautiful! Just a wonderful creation Good luck!

Thanks to all for the nice comments

Fantastic, I am a big fan of "source only" editing and this is extremely well done

Cornelia...again, as usual.... good job! Congratualtions on your 4th place!