Nice overall work, a really nice looking image, but be careful with the white edges around the tree and the man. Also be sure to post all of the sources you used.

EDIT: Ah, okay Great job and good luck.

thanks for the comment. the white margins were made intentionally, because of the backlight. i posted all the sources. the man is made by me using paths and painting over.

Nice color. The turtle would have a bigger shadow, and maybe blur the rim lighting just a bit. Good luck!

Welldone Author..

Great work author...Few minor nit picks...u should blur a bit black boat and people on horizon,then glow from the sun on a guy and on a tree can be way better,u achieve that on the turtle,try to do the same on other objects...So that's it,i love this work so much and i will wait with voting,maybe u apply some changes...best of luck

i love the shadding you have given on the turtle
great work

Congrats for your third place, Keenox!

Congratulations!

thanks everyone for votes

Groovy

Nice work but the bottom of the tree (Stones) were cut wrongly, a part of the sea can be seen from the stones, try to fix it and give the stones some sand effect to be more realistic otherwise it's a good picture.

Nice idea -- the rope is not correctly shaped -- if it is meant to be pulled tight then it would not have the loop shape at the tree but be elongated or the loop would be tight on the tree -- if the rope is slack the loop would still drape the tree or be on the ground and the rope would have a curved shape.

em agree with you Alan, rope must be curved shape and the position of rope should be bottom!

needs a lot of work but the idea is kind of good...
please edit and upload it again
till then i am holding on to my vote

please can you give sbs so that we can understand how you made this
i got an idea
but i really want to see it before i vote

Ent?

Good job
Maybe make the water drops a little transparent
GL

good work!

Thanks loopyluv; Made the water more transparent, hope it look better now

Source image is unrecognizable...you could have made this from anything.

It is really made from the stairs - that's the whole wooden texture look - you can see it in the SBS. Also I thought that the more author's own input, the better - or am I wrong on that? If so, I am sorry.

You needn't apologize but I agree with what CMYK46 is saying. There should be a unique look to the image that could only be achieved with the given source, this looks very nice but isn't really dependent on the contest source image.

Author this is very very nice work,i agree that u could made this with anything but lots entry's at pxleyes are made at the same way so don't worry.Maybe u could add some parts from source image,stairs in the background or something else u will have 100% unquestionable entry...Good luck,this is great creativity...

Thanks for the encouragement ... I do see your point guys; so in order to add another thing from the source image which would be more recognizable, I took out the fly and put in a snake instead, which is made out of the railing from the source image. Hope this helps a bit

Agrees with CMYK. Really CBR'd, even after you changed it.

Remember, the point of the source image contest is to keep it recognizable at least to a point that we don't have to go to the SBS to see it.

nice ...............

gl on this

Yep, when you don't see the sbs, it's difficult to believe the image was made from source... but it's really nice and creative! GL...