Of all his stock, this one is my favorite. I could just never figure out what to do with her. You did and you did it beautifully. Adding it to my favs. If I could add it twice, I would.

it is amzing

Wow it's so pretty..I love this kind of work...high vote and fav

Beautiful image, well made SBS...mucha luck, author!

very nice piece of work !!! love how you've made spilling water ... GL!!!

Thanks everyone!
Derdevil, the water was the first thing I saw in my mind when I looked at the contest source, imagining "waves" from the curves of the power supply. It took a bit of work to make it look more organic in form, but I'm happy with the way it turned out, thank you for noticing!

Yeah..cool thinking.

I think that the water was an especially subtle and creative use of the source image. This is a really wonderful piece of art!

Fantastic Work........ Love the concept. Good Luck Author.

Awesome Work!!! Love the SBS, certainly a teaching tool for me! I am learning as I go through experimentation and I don't have photoshop so this entry just amazed me. Then to see the SBS...all I can say is WOW! Good luck, truly a fantastic entry.

The concept is nice and the SBS is very helpful.
Adding it as one of my favorites. Very nice job done.
All the best for your future works.

Beautifully done. Your SBS are very informative. Good luck!

beautiful view, love the ancient Greek mood, good luck

One of the best and surely a winner for me. Instant fav here author.

Wow, it looks great. It reminds me of Aquarius image and the effect is brilliant. Two thumbs up - well done

This work is beautiful, and good

Good job showing something recognizable from the source in an artistic way.

Appealing, but the slightly colorful background, particularly the pink roses, grabs my eye before the water maiden's muted tones.

Although the roses may grab your eye before the maiden, I doubt your attention stays there, since the maiden is in front of the roses...This then pulls your eyes to the maiden, her hair and the pouring water, which then makes your eye go to the circular pattern containing the source image, which is echoed in the water, directing your eye back to the background roses, and your eye begins the journey again...Notice that the pale roses (which match the maiden's dress) are at the bottom. The roses were deliberately rotated to place the colors that way...

That's the concept behind the composition, and why I selected the roses as well as the pink tones - to keep the focus from settling upon the maiden with the background as an afterthought.

beautiful

Really nice work, author, good use of source image. I especially like how you made the water.

Great clean work....should of been top 3 in my eyes.,

Great piece, I like the poor bird and bone collection...nice work!

My girlfriend says I create sad entries, but that's only because I'm such a positive person and I feel the need to compensate!

Nice entry, GL!

Wonderfully dark ... one could say, electrifying

Updated. You can see previous version in the SBS.
Please don't refrain from saying what you DON'T like in my entry: maybe you hate the colors, the bird is too small, structure looks like toy, lightning& clouds look very artificial, whatever it is, as long as you have improvement suggestions as well, your Critique will be welcomed.
I'm not a master artist, I'm here to get better and it would help me a lot knowing what I do wrong so that I can improve in this lifetime . Thank you for your support.

Very original!! I found it very powerfull, good luck author!

I like how you made this structure with the correct perspective of the rings. No problem with the small bird, but it should be blurry as the far scene in the background and the lightning should be smaller if it attacks the bird. The yellow sparks are not really realistic, but they're acceptable IMO. Most of us here made toy-like constructions in our entries because it's hard to make them realistic, that's why we have to learn more and more. My hint is finding the real images of what you want to make and try to mimic as closely as possible, that's the way I did. Good luck to you

Excellent and very reminiscent of Sal.

very interesting and creative work...GL author