Beautiful work, sweet steampunky image.

A very sweet and imaginative take on the theme!

Love the texture of your composition. It's a mixture of old and new times...mysterious! GL

Very smart thinking, a unique idea.

This is fanstastic!!

Very nice masterpiece!

Thank you for your votes and kind comments!

Congrats, well deserved win.

Congrats!

Well done, congrats!

Congrats Cheryl beautifully done

Congrats Cheryl!!

Congrats

Congrats!!

Exquisite work. Congrats on a well-deserved win!
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Amazing job ! Congrats

Congrats! A beautiful piece of work!!

This is really cool!!!

That takes metamorphosis to a whole new level

Nice idea, but you might want to spend a bit more time on the masking & blending in step 3 and 4. Good luck!

and this is creativity cool dude

nice creativity gud luck ..

Amazing

Congrats Chinmay well done

I'd expand the flower and shrink the stem, (it's an odd blossom that's stem is heavier then the bloom) bottom heavy, good luck, very lahiripartha but IMHO

much better balance (hummingbirds were always so tiny compared to their quarry where I lived)

I like it, great picture, nice colours, absolutely brill.

the bird is really nicely made but i dont think it fits well with the background . the background is way sharper, where the bird comes across very bright and really cut out. You can see corners all arround the head of the bird in high res. Also it seems theres an white kinda outline on the head and wing. on the birds back is a darker outline, the shadow you placed is not only on top of the flower but also casted on the leaf behind/slightly above the flower and everywhere inbetween those. The birds position doesnt seem right to be able to put its beak into the flower. try turn it.

The bird just looks like a CBR that could have been made from any source image. There's nothing to really distinguish it as being the contest source, and it's not very well made to go with the background. It's just a lumpy hummingbird.

Eladine-thank you for your constructive critisism...greatly appreciated. I knew when I did this that it wasn't by any means perfect but I truly enjoyed creating it. It's all a learning process and I enjoy that as well.
MossyB-YIKES! Wish I was a pro but certainly a novice and am trying to learn from all the excellent and talented people here. Sometimes MossyB, the fun of trying something I haven't done before is worth the critisism. lol.

Author, if you take the humming bird on a separate layer, and duplicate it, then blend the top layer with OVERLAY or MULTIPLY, it's definition might come out better and get a bit more detail (you can also play with HIGHPASS or HDR on the top layer and contrast and brightness will help it pop more) the construction is quite nice, very pretty picture for a very difficult source

Good Luck

thanks Drivenslush...unfortunately I don't have photoshop and am using Microsoft Digital Image Pro10 so I don't have all the bells and whistles I wish I had. lol. I have been editing it and will put up the new one....not sure it is any better though.

ooh i never heard of that program so I cant rly even help you there with the tools to use n how and what o.o; kinda cool there's still programs out there that i never heard of that are decent enough to photoshop with

Would love feedback as if it is looking better than the unedited version. lol.

I think your hummingbird looks pretty good, Maybe make the eye a little more defined.

Author, I hear that Gimp(free program) has a lot of features similar to Photoshop and that, for a free program, it is very well liked.

I persinally would have turned the bird n not the flower

Very nice execution and idea! I like it

Very good, try making the bird slightly transparent in some sections to make it even more realistic GL

Lov it..and a fav! good luck

Nice chop author. Wonder how it will look with the inner torso blurred on the edges, but that's just me

congrats on first.. just fab entry

Congrats, well done

Oh wow, thaks for the high votes

Congrats on 1st place..awesome entry

Nice Job Congrats on First Place Win