The stork with the wings opened has the sunlight in its back; so it's lacking some lighting on the images...

extremely good chopping

gud luck

a little off proportion there but still a pretty cool concept

Thanks for your comments. Adjusted a few things, I hope, to your liking.

Very cool idea and nice work...good luck author

like the idea........... all the best to u .........

trip the light fantastic

What's the source for the background leaves?

In step 1 of the SBS, I've got the source labeled "fern". I used the pen tool within the lines to make copies of leaves of various shapes. Probably should have labeled it "leaves", but a fern-like plant was what I had in mind. Dang. I forgot to label the foreground leaves. I took those from the source labeled "branch".

fantastic work, author!
the one thing that I wonder is that with all that's curved, it seems odd that the lizard's wings are straight. IMHO, they would look more like the other critters if they were warped a little. high marks, tho, love it.

Amazing work! It's incredible what the human creativity is able to do with an image, PS and some ideas... Cool!

Beautiful image!! Good Luck =)

really nice, good luck

very nice .............

Very nice work author

Nice! the left leaf is to bright on the bottom, it should blend with the same shading as the big stam, so a lot darker

I like it.

Amazing work author...best of luck

Stunning.

Nice image.

Congrats with this nice image!

Thank you for the votes and comments!

many congrats, great work!

Congrats for your first place, Cheryl!

This was definitely the best. You chopped the source a lot but not to the point it was unrecognizable. Great in high res! Well deserving winner! Congrats!

congrats.. waka waka waka

Great job. Congratulations!

Congrats for d 1st place . . . . . .

Congratulations for 1st

well deserved first place....... Congrats...

Congrats, beautiful work

Nice work...congrats!

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congrats!

Congrats !!

Congrats!

Congrats, beautiful work !!!

congratulations on first,

mmm, this looks like the turtle beach in Zante!

Pretty cool, but fix the weird square part left under between the rock and house. Also the rock edges there are a bit too sharp, maybe a bit softer with structure? Good luck!

Its a wonderful idea,good luck

Thanks for the keen eye wazowski! something went wrong there.

Very nice idea, and well executed.. great result. Well done!

Way better Good luck!

really nice view

nice and different thinking.... Gl

Very nice work author

Good job, author!

It's a different way to look the image. Very nice!

very fun image

a different entry .........all the best to u .........

very good thinking .. Good luck

good luck

I like the "feel" and color of this one. Nice job author. Good luck with the contest.

GL with this entry.....

nice effect......... gud luck author .........

Simply beautiful...

I love it - but why the shadow?

I don't get the "shadow" or whatever it is either...

I made some changes... thanks for your comments!!!

Oh yes! Soooo much better!

Beautiful, she looks like an angel

Very artistic entry, wonderful work as usual. Good luck to you!!

very beautiful work........
all the best to u.........

she is so cute

awesome !

very well done

Very well done; beautiful!