Author, I like your concept, but somehow it needs another dimension. Pasting a bird pic onto a background is hardly surrealism, but it is a dramatic visual statement. Take it a step further.

I dont know what it is about this one, but it sent chills down my spine, i love it!!!

Did you try to make that motion blur, like it's taking off? Back then, when they were making photos looking like this 18-19 hundreds you had to stay still for half an hour or so

It's a dead bird...he would have no trouble staying still.

Like the statement this makes.

This is really creative and cool! Maybe there should be a shadow under the actual body of the elephant, on the log, since the legs have shadows...

I had a feeling it was you author!! Great piece Best of Luck

You are absolutely right Giulia! I made a slight improvement.

Incredible ...what an imagination! You have come up with a wonderful concept and great excecution of the whole thing; I particularly like the eyes and the lizard (which I did not notice at first, which made it even better). Bravo!

hehehe

nice work ........

I like this....nice and freaky!

funny image.., very nice

I love it !

This image is what we call "integrated to nature"... Very nice surrealism!

great imagination

Nice imagination...I love surrealism...Good luck author

very nice work

Pretty wild. GL!

It's a bit of a pity that the image isnt bigger, but for the rest too funny result, well done imagination! Good luck!

Very cool concept author...good luck

Congrats

Congrats Tucker terrific work

WTG! Tuck

Congrats...

Well done Tuckinator on first place

Great win - congrats!

CONGRATS!!!

congrats

congrats

Congrats tuck tuck, crazy genetics at work there lol

Congrats

Congrats!!

congrats

Congrats :]

congrates author...well done

Congratulations!

Congrats little dude..you are on a rooooooooooooooooooolll !!!

lol... furballs. nice!

Well, I know a cat almost like that... almost.
Funny entry, author! GL!...

very cool work author...nice details and great blend...well done

amazing work

great work very realistic

nicely done ! g l

Thank you for your comments.

Nice blending author.

Woah, you warped the candle so much I thought you entered the image into the wrong contest !!
Nice alien-looking eggs too

very very nice... and a lot of efforts.....

yeah normaly I like the source to be slightly visible, but not with this source. So I included the sourcename a bit more for my result

Very beautiful work and lots of detail . Looks winner to me. My fav too.

Very nice indeed, like iet very much GL

Very nice indeed, like iet very much GL

love all the layers.. reminds me of a rollercoaster

Very tasty eye candy!

wow this is very creative!

tho I usually don't care for these cbr images, I do like this one. It would have more impact with just the one central 'egg' and the background, tho. Lots of work - kudos.

Congrats great job!

Congrats for 1st

Congrats, terrific work

Congrats, Solaris! Beautiful entry!

Congratulations!

Congrats! for 1st

congrats for the first place....

nice mood your making there. there seems to be two lightsource from the clouds; it's too bright for the stars to be seen yet and some of the clouds seems to be behind the stars. lastly, a lot of dogs running syncronously is a bit odd. nice image though and i like the mood here.

You mean you've never seen a pack of synchronized dogs run wildly through a field on a dimly lit day with the stars shining brightly? haha... Well the stars were supposed to be more of a borderish thing, not really supposed to elude to night at all, so oops on that one. The two light sources were intentional to imply a cloud breaking the light source into "two"..... and I like synchronized dogs...lol

the lightrays wouldn't supposed to be on the same angle then, and the dog would have stronger shadow with that strong light...just my observation. good work though!

nice work... didn't under stand the dog's intention there.. are they going to attak her... the three dogs seems like that but the other dogs that are far dosent look like so...and the lights are still strange.. looks like they are coming from two different angle.. else is very good and nice mood created... very well done and Gl. Author..

I'm agree with hereisanoop

Thanks for all the input! I can see I could definitely have made the lighting a little better, directionally and more shadows, I was just trying not to overdo it with the shadowing actually! Anyways, thanks to all, your critiques are very valuable.