very nice.

Great idea

this is cool!!! i'm impressed by your imagination!!!

cool work, author! best of luck to you!

Tree reflection is too blurred compared to swan reflections, but this is still a nice piece of work...GL author.

Edit: Thanks CMYK46 to point out.

Too cool execution author...Very very well done!

so mystical, good luck!

Very, very pretty work, author!

Best 1 in the entry..good luck

Lovely view........Great job and good luck Author.

congrats!

Congrats for 1st, nice

Congrats, lovely work

Thanks friends..love you all!

Congrats for winning!

Congrats!

Congratulations for 1st place win....this is awesome work.

Photo of boy is copyrighted. Please read http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/

It's my photos, Sorry forgot to remove "all rights reserved", changed it already.

The reflection is off, it looks as though it is tilted forward...

Thanks MossyB I played with it a little any better?

Author - if you look at the bottom, I think the reflection would start from the back of the stand. Either that, or a shadow is needed imo

Thanks JamesP I redid Any better?

nice

Thanks itsdesign

Very interesting background! Shell looks kind of flat right now, maybe you can increase the contrast of the lighting.

Thank you for comment Kid: I worked more on the shell. I added more color and made it more convincing using the smudge tool, levels, and layer adjustments.

This is really nice, author...do you think you could maybe vary the brightness of the white flowers. I like how you have some blurrier than others...but if you vary the brightness so that they are not all the same...it'll help. Nice job, regardless.

Thanks pixelkid, I will see what Ican do. Lowering the brightness does not take much time.

Cute little fellow!

So Sweet!

Fantastic work author...all details are perfect...its so cool how u use only source image to create image which is rich with details...well done man

you are the best with smudge tool with which I sometimes get frustrated using it,....

Thanks for comments.

dekwid: It is fun working with the smudge tool, you just have to be adding strokes and colors that go together. Different sizes of brushes and Opacity blendings. It takes time, but at the end, it pays.

Really nice work with the source and final image.

Great work!

Very nice work......Best of Luck Author.

Thanks for comments and support.

Truely awesome...., beautiful entry...

Thought I already did this, but I guess it didn't stick. So, Congrats, George! The shell is beautiful and I really like how you did the flowers and leaves.

Congrats!

Thanks for comments and congrats. I appreciate it.