Good mood, but no high res version? Please fix link #1.

very nice work on the lighting

Thank you for your comments....I've tried loading the High Resolution several times, but for any reason, does not do it.... sorry. Link # 1 fixed.

the white thing looks fake, because it stands out too much

Kayaklovegirl: I think it should be a kind of highlights over the pavilion, (if it is the "thing" you talk about). Thank you for comment.

Your high res version is probably too high. Make sure it's less than 2500 pixels wide. Anything much bigger than that might give you issues.

Try to fade the background mountains and make the foreground less faded(fog not in the right place), thats a standard rule to give an illustration depth.

Thank you jawshowwhah, HIgh Resolution works now. Sander, thank you for the tip, I will do that.

Good blend of different sources.. good luck!!

nice choices of stock images. seagulls/Albatros are an interesting touch.

Beautiful!

Great mood.

Thank all of you, for your comments....

Nice idea and good colours, but the bridge is blurrer than the statues and I think you should place the mountains and statues lower and reduce them since the bridge is curve and its end probable is lower than the horizon...

I'd flip one of the statues & pay more attention to light & shadow, but nice image...

Definitely flip one statue. They'd look much better facing the opposite way.

Thank you very much all of you, i used dodging and burning to apply light to the figure on the right. Thanks

nice sbs author !! G/L

reminds "The Neverending Story" - one of the films most affected me in my youth.. i love step 13 in SBS - it's greener and more interesting than final result

I love the feel about your image author. good use of source.

Congrats for your first place, Matteo!

congrats Matteo!

congrats! for 1st place.. Very nice color

congrats

congrats! for 1st place.

Congrats!!

congrats

'like a viiiiirgin'

31st time is the charm?

RayTedwell you are right.

Glizzta I picked actual misheard lyrics from http://www.kissthisguy.com/3587misheard.htm

i think the colour change was a great choice... love the finish.

Awesome!

Very Nice!

Beautifully done.

awesome

Very creative entry,wel done!

Thanks to all for the nice comments and support!

Congrats again another beautiful piece

Very nice idea, the image is a bit blurry, other than that - great job!!

thanks ponti, I sharpened it a bit!

Very interesting idea!

Great work!

Light on book is from upper left. Light on owl is opposite...owl is still blurry.

Play with sharp filter and tool a bit...I love idea..gl author...

The idea was that since the owl is 'smoking' out of the book, it can not be sharp, so I applied the motion blur to it!

Very cool.

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