Cool work author!

Great composite, author!

Congrats for your second place!

Congrats!!

Nice Congrats!

Good work. Could have used some edge refinement before you applied the filter.

thanks for the comment CMYK46

spooky but creative .

Great composition, lovely sky. SBS is well done! .

wow.... beautiful job., perfect for a fantasy magazine's cover.....

awesome...... IMO the entry is perfect now.....

Beautiful entry.... good luck!

Brilliant idea and good execution, some how the colors and subjects suggested me you're the author, and bingo! I have some suggestions for this work, even though it's really good now. Some how I feel you missed one intermediate point, this is when the bird land in the well. I had a bit difficulty to figure out what's going on and I think because of that missing part, and if you have one more creature that totally separated from the well, that will even be more fantastic. The second thing is about the composition, it's quite neat now, but you still can improve...

Because you chose the portrait frame, the way of arranging the birds in a curve queue like this is reasonable, but on the other side, the new creature is flying into the area that limited by this curve. Regarding the idea of this piece, to me, it's a kind of incomplete transformation. How about using landscape frame? so you can arrange the birds on the left and the new creature on the right, you have wide landscape and be able to modify the two parts of the sky to fit the subjects. Just from my angle. Wish you the best of luck with this contest !

Thanks langstrum, as usual your comments are much appreciated. This was a hard one; my original image did have a bird flying into the Well but I took it out as I was not happy with it but you could be right ... maybe I need to do another photo shoot with crows as the one I had just didn't look right. About the format ... maybe if I change it (back) to Landscape it would look better. I will have to give that a try! Again thanks!!!

And thank you to everyone for the wonderful comments

Great image and SBS!

nycee

Veeeeeeeeeeery nice!!! Wow!

This is really cool

Awesome effect!

huge work done!!! marvelous!

I'd also like to live there

Congrats, brilliant!!........GL!

Basketweave effect is fabulous. (You have much more patience than I!) Great job!

great job!

WOW

Great, GL!

Very unique building

nice, like your idea.

Bigtime patience! I may have used a mask, tho, just in case tweaks were needed. Reminds me of this building: http://www.longaberger.com/homeOfficeHistory.aspx .

Would look nicer if the sky and moon had color. Great blend, though!

Light source on raven is opposite light on moon. Just flip one.

nice idea -- moon's edge is a bit ragged and the rock's edge is a bit sharp -- maybe a bit of blur to each

Very nice work with cool mood author,but i don't see this image as surrealism...good luck

The entry is called raven, but I keep starring at the moon, is so big and bright it eliminates the foreground.
I know it's late, but you know what would make this surrealism ?

No rock in FG and placing the raven ON the moon