Great choice of images -- very nice blend

Great blending and consistent lighting. Good, fun chop!

Very interesting.....love it!

I think he should have more room in front of his 'face' - it might be cropped to the rule of thirds but I think the subject could have been on a better intersecting third than what it is currently.

The perspective of this entry is incredibly unique! Just that alone is pleasing! Add to it that there's some honest strangeness of a subject, along with really nice execution of the water and lighting...and this is quite pristine. The only thing I'd like to see would be to lighten the hand and sleeve a bit. Looks a bit dark against the bright banana. (Good band name). Great job, author!

It's FANTASY...You certainly can't expect to apply "real world" expectations to EVERY entry you look at. I think you're grasping at straws, Eladine. The "lake sphere" looks FINE.
Re-read the contest description. This is an "odd" combination of elements, which is all the contest calls for. Anything more is up to you as a voter to perceive or miss...

it does... sorry but a sphere is round and since its transparent you would see the other side of the sphere.. (light/reflections) which i dont see with this one..

I love those old diners

i like the weird image but i would have presented the floating pond in a different manner . it looks like a flat blueish surface copy pasted on, i would have tried embed it in a cloud or something..

Love the idea, just feel you could have framed it better, after all he wasn't about to run away.

Nice photo, I like the way you caught the texture of the tree. I feel like I want to actually touch the photo.

Color is great! I love the expression of the gal...everything is so mundane and ho hum...the inevitable is about to happen! I love images that depict something before it actually does! Nice work, author!

The fact that the wolf is looking directly at the viewer makes this especially creepy. Yikes...somebody get a broom!

nice simple and i like the picture sepia tones...i'm not that certain about the spider though, it seems as if its position takes away the prespective of the umbrella. i think it may be the shadow cast on the inner part of the ubrella. looks like the umbrella is inside out

Nice job, except the stick support on the right intersects the spider leg and makes it look like the spider has one extremely long leg in the front.

Also agree... source image is recognisable and very creatively used. Fav from me

I agree, and I have to pick on something because I am very picky, and the only thing I can come up with is the the character's could be a bit brighter (imo)

Creative use of the source image, author! This is a fun image!

nice concept....

You have a VERY interesting and unique collection. The only one that doesn't quite "flow" for me would be the marbles. But they are all very nice

This needs to be seen in High Res and then enlarged, some wonderful photos there. Well done.

The variation of color and lighting on each are perfect to me. My favorite is the aquamarine center-ish one is lit. Simply brilliant. Leaves me wanting to see more. Nice job, author!!

These are stunning! Very nice lighting on some of them, and the colors and shapes make them fascinating to look at. Great job!

Congrats!!

Maybe the plane is an remote controlled toy plane and the wing walker is just a figurine. So the real size eagle hust wanted to catch the RC food.
Great idea and execution.

Well my first thought was cool image --still is gl

I agree, well done both technically and with imagination and humor

"Download the photo on the left and manipulate it any way you want" Author, you just did that! If it is the way you wanted, it is ok, as a matter of fact, it is a nice funny entry..... good luck!

This picture makes me want to never fly!!! lol! love it!!! good stuff

I'm all for suspending disbelief, but looking at the claws looks like the Eagle is missing its mark. Great job otherwise.

Author why don't you make a cow as the wing walker. lol ...Just pokin' at ya. Pretty funny picture though, sure glad cows don't fly.

Well if that's you best excuse, why not make it a giant cow or a shark?
Unrealistic and "fun" pics are okay, but they don't necessarily display good skills if they are visually "jarring" in their unbelievability, which happens when the scale is off, while the rest of the chop is good...

I don't think eagles come that large...

Lovely

Very rich color, without being artificially over saturated. Nice focus. Well done!

I can almost hear the wind rustling between the stalks. Good job!

The red berries on the right would really have made this photo, if they had been sharper.

yeah kid!.. but u put your sbs on this pic after my comment!..you r curious..
keep posting your sbs's,i guess thats good for u..and I'll post them when they're necessary.

Very well constructed space ship

nice sky colour, great image, love the flames

LOL how curious!!
you dont post SBS's and u were bothering me about that days ago...LOL
oh man!..so out of this world..people..,people.

the strength of the light sources is not consistent, the milk doesnt rly look like milk perhaps you could use a flat surface of milk with displacement map

Wow, what a beautiful color contrast! I never thought of ornamental kale as a natural backdrop to a pumpkin!

Nicely done there...

congrats

Congrats for 3rd...nicley done

I "Fav'd" this one from the beginning. Shadows and sharpness be damned, I think it's wonderful! Congrats!

nice take on the SCI FI concept.. good cover

it's cool...

Excellent work, but do the trees in front count as "background?"