WOW! Nice chop author! My fav so far! GL!

AGREED!! this is phenomenal !! great job author!! best of luck

great entry, gl

i agree with you all... this is genius...!

Wow thanks so much everyone!

this is awesome

Really good

Excellent sources. Nice texture and work with the details and the shape of the fire

Cool! Where's the throne?

Haha Thanks! Well its not exactly a "throne", I was just going for the fact that he was sitting

stunning work

Congrats

Congrats!

Congrats...

Congrats

Congrats!!

Thanks everyone!!

Welcome to PXL author. You might want to take some time to read the rules and guidelines. Entering similar entries is against the rules. I'd flag either this one or the other for removal or the mods will remove them both. Then take some time and read :

http://www.pxleyes.com/guidelines/
http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-participate-in-pxleyes-photoshop-contests/

Oh really? i thought we are allowed to send upto 3 entries in each category... I did not see it in the guidelines prohibiting to send more than one entry in each category... in fact i have seen some authors with multiple entries in previous categories... anyways, you're the pro... so i guess i need to remove the other one and perhaps move it to mixed manipulations category... thank you for the tip... i appreciate that...

I think they might have left out that specific rule are far as similar entries in contest. I was there and is still a rule as I know. You are allowed to enter three entries but the similar entries rule is mainly there because if you enter two similar entries and if I can tell they are both yours it makes one of your entries no longer anonymous by voting on one. Besides, it shows more creativity in your entries when you keep them more diverse. Make sense?

love this! the only thing i have a problem looking at is the skull on the bottom left, its too dark, maybe brightening it up and adding some more contrast would be great!

Welcome to PXL author. You might want to take some time to read the rules and guidelines. Entering similar entries is against the rules. I'd flag either this one or the other for removal or the mods will remove them both. Then take some time and read :

http://www.pxleyes.com/guidelines/
http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-participate-in-pxleyes-photoshop-contests/

i will have this removed.

Help... i can't remove this entry...

you can't remove it, that's why I said flag it. You can replace it by going to "My stuff" and then find your entry and click "edit entry". I would just try to make another with more variation and replace it. GL!

thanks a lot...!

That's cruel! Different sources were brought together quite smoothly and you paid some attentions to the detail such as changing the colors on the house. However, I have some suggestions for you:
1. If you want to focus on the two people and the house, they should be the main objects, so their shapes, colors, etc. should be noticeable compared with the environment. Consider that, the sky and the fire should be more desaturated and brighter in color, you can also blur them slightly to make the better depth (including the road and the hill).
2. Applying the motion blur is a nice touch but your choice of object is not right. The flight is so far away from the ground, so their movement is slow compared to other actions or movements on the ground and close to the camera. The camera has to capture the image within several seconds to see that effect, but in this case, the remaining parts of the image will be overbrighten and almost nothing will be seen. Just apply that filter to something close to the camera and move very fast compared with the others .
3. Let see the shadow of the house, it's sharp, so the shadow of the soldier should be the same .
Hope that my comment is helpful to you. Good luck!

Thanks! Great advice I'll work in it straight away when I'm done with school today !!
Again ! Thanks for takin the time to write the comment !!
Greets

I like this entry very much author...idea is maybe a bit cruel but that was our history, and we never should to forget all horrors that war brings...and now for the execution,i like almost everything...only one thing bothers me...sky is to blue compared with the ground...i know is to late now but for some other entry's u could create some color adjustment layer above all other...in this case maybe, dark brown color layer and maybe gray/blue soft light layer with low opacity...u always could try with some colors, never know how the things will turn up...Best of luck for u...

Sad....painful......but an interesting image..... your idea is good. Good luck.

Twisted! GL!

your second link doesn't work. :P

You are right. The link doesn't work any more and I can't find the photo I used. Probably it was removed.

Author, you thanked MnMCarta, if you go to her profile she has an album called lightning, or go to the stock section and type in lightning, her stock comes up first. You can fix the link or add it to a comment.