Hey, I like this. Very nice job here. Congrats

very nice! I love the tones in this and the lighting. Works really well!!!

Thanks for your comments.....

props are well chosen and set author...
but i feel, the night makes the objects more
desaturated and moves towards blueshish tones...

that is if you are tending towards reality....

Thanks closedeyes, you are right, I thought of using blue tones at the beginning, but then, I decided to leave it as it is. It is late for changes, but I will do something similar in the future, using your advise.

nice result author...best of luck

idea is fine -- execution needs some touch up -- all the holes need to have depth as was done in the "P" -- edges should not be straight lines as I doubt that stone would weather to a straight edge

Hey Thanks Alan2641 I did some touch up on what you said any better?

Author the touch-ups are still not quite right IMO, the edges are still too sharp and/or straight. You can try using the eraser with less opacity and fill adjustments. I would use it set at 10% and 10% so you can control it better. Good luck author

good thinking

Creative idea, but the letters need a lot more shadows on their under [ground-facing] sides. I would also consider moving the young adults to the left edge (with probably a horizontal flip and maybe having the kids in front slightly overlapping so the people form a single element) for a more-diagonal composition instead of having all the elements on the right-hand side.

Thanks all I did some readjustments but I maybe should have stayed away from the stone letters

cool idea...gl

You should add some purple pink filter to the forest/church itself >.

Moody, but either the building and dock are are gigantic or the trees are tiny.

I have to agree that trees look like bush near the building. And pine trees are very tall...

Nice color scheme! I think you should have a bit of the building reflecting also in the water to match the tree line that is reflecting. Best of Luck

nice job.., Gl

very very cool looking!

Thanks for the compliments and criticism

Nice landscape! Good Luck

nice blending good luck

very cool work author...good luck

Great mood and amazing landscape. Want to live in that house

Thanks very much for the comments all

Very surrealistic approach and a lovely representation of the idiom... great job!

i agree!! great job!!... somethin bout the bottom of that tree looks a little off to me... could just be me though.. Great Work!!

I don't often mark things as my favourites unless they keep me coming back to see it.. and every 30 minutes or so i find myself staring at this again and again... Wow.

Thank you very much! I touched up the base of the tree westfall.

much better!.. and i agree... this one draws me back as well

I'm unfamiliar with the idiom, so I appreciated the explanation. The wooden landscape is lovely, but I don't get why the figure is also made of wood.

It just seemed to be fitting in the world of wood that I created. The figures being made of wood has no significance towards the idiom, only to the piece.

Funny image the sky looks very nice. I would suggest to change the shadows. The shadow of the man is way to big and comes to far to the front, while the shadow of the tree isn't getting any close to that and it's even higher. Removing the shadow on the front hill and sharpening the edge of the tree shadow (also stretch the shadow more downwards without fading it out) would finish the job Good luck!

it is very nice work ,good luck

I am glad so many people like this entry

Ressiv, I know the shadows are off a bit, I retweaked them but I am going to let this entry ride like it is. Once the contest is over I will upload my adjusted to my profile.

I think I kind of like how the shadows don't totally match the logic of the lighting.

good luck

Congrats

Congrats for your first place, Phubar!

Holy crap I actually won a contest! Awessome, thanks for the votes everyone!

Congratulations for 1st, really nice pic.

congrats!!

Congrats, a lovely piece of work

Congrats for the 1st place . . . .

Congrats sweetie!

Congrats! for 1st place

Great work! CONGRATS!!!

congrats!

congrats on 1st place....

Congrats phubar! Well deserved win