good idea-- use dodge and burn to give the petals more depth and a rounded look

very nice bird of paradise.. They grow all over by my house... but none of them are as beautiful as this one.. they are beautiful.. for about and hour then the bugs take over and ISH... LOL

nice. need more finishing

Great use of the source nice work...

very nice, tropical feeling

Nice job. Would be nicer to give it a background...

gl

nice idea! gl

great

good work

I just noticed, that when you look at the big red flower and scroll up and down pretty fast, it looks like the flower is moving. I just did this the past 2 minutes Good luck!

Wonderfull work! Excellent! Well done!

very good blending, i love your garden, good luck author

nice entry, gl

This looks amazing! But maybe you should experiment with the background a little more?

very ethereal.. wowowowowow..good luck author.. shading is wonderful

EDIT: Making an L on my forehead.. should have known it was you ... wondrous

So interesting!

Thats really cool. Nice work

nice idea.. good work.. gl

Who would ever think of a flower- that's creative thinking for you! The swirl in the background is just a great idea for creating movement in the image!

Thanks a lot for nice comments guys!!!

Interesting piece & a nice departure from the norm.

nice idea

now are here too flowers and with already high marks you will make background too colored, like it is in flowers, if you care... good luck!

Very good!

Good thinking, nice blend...

very interesting, good work

Nice Work....... Author.........Good Luck.

Creative and nice looking. I 'd like to change color of ground, so object get better focus. Its better to change background with some other space background

nasirkhan: thanks a lot for comment! I tried to change background color and tried find right image for bg, and it wasn't good... so I left it like this... Thanks for advice my friend!

Off-course final decision is upto you liking Still great image

the galaxy I come from (that one in the bg), we get sand planets, water planets, lava planets... wow, you guys have turtle planets too? ))) gl, author!

i like this

For me is like an invisible extraterrestrial crature who is singing and have a dress made of turtle shells. Look closer, it's singing opera.

looks full of life

The turtle flower thing is OK but the background is not workin for me...sorry, gl

i think something is missing

Abstract, very creative

nice

Love space scenes

Nice creation. For some reason this reminds me a bit on a scene from Aliens (Ripley seeing all these eggs...*brrr*). As some other people say, the galaxy background looks a tiny bit off, especially since there seems to be some lightsource coming from the left, while at the same time you also have a pretty heavy light from the middle. You wouldnt prefer a more natural star background? Good luck!

wazowski thanks for comment and advice! I'll try to change background!!! About light source from left, I think you right! But when I was busy with image, I thought that on the left side there more brighter (closer) source of light, like sun or planet or... Thanks again

I love the new background, and wish I could have voted higher...good luck!

Thank you CMYK!
lchappell: you were absolutely right about background, why I didn't listen to you and didn't change it few days ago? Thanks!

very beautiful, good luck

looks great after the background change

excellent

Congratulations!!! ( by the way....if this, it's a space flower...i am a tree...realy...))...)

Congratulations for 1st

Congrats!

wow u won....congrats my friend

Congrats Olga, this is beautiful!

Congratulations.

Thanks for congrats guys and for help to improve it!

Congrats!

Teriffic concept!!!