Required reading when I was a pup. Still remember the the row of 30 copies in Mrs. Babic's (English Teacher)room, ready for the next set of kids to read them again.

"And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe, he realized that he was very close to tears." This is one of my favourite books Drivenslush, I've read it dozen times... I'm very happy to discover it is popular over the Pond.

hands (petals) on the hips is hysterical

Your sources are all okay but source 5 is the download link, always use a link that shows the usage terms/license as well as the image. For this source the correct link is https://www.pexels.com/photo/sky-earth-galaxy-universe-2422/

Good luck!

“What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them . . . On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak . . .”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Author, this is a well made image but Sources 1, 2 and 4 are not offered under a Creative Commons license, and are not useable. Please see: http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2009/06/how-and-where-to-find-legal-source-images/ and http://www.pxleyes.com/guidelines/photoshop/
If you can fix it and resubmit, you could tweak your shadows. The base of the container & the girl's leg don't seem to have shadows.

Congrats!

Congrats Duke fabulous work

Congrats with the deserved win
Great entry

RE my original comment, In your original description you said that you used sketchbook pro to illustrate - and from what I assumed colour!! My original point was to highlight that in order for your entry to be more in line with a PS contest; that it be completely illustrated or at least the bulk of it illustrated in PS and not in another piece of software....

Yes people will submit digitally painted entries; but they will have used PS when entering these contests - you can use whatever you like in the drawing contests...............

So in answer to your post regarding that comment..... that was the problem!!

ANYWAY!!! -

hehehehe... love the whole concept and even though I don't know the language the whole description really helps the whole concept.. great job and good luck

Don't get me wrong I like it, it fits more with the theme than most others in the contest.... BUT I would say it fits more into the digital drawing contest side of things rather than a PS contest, as judging by your description it seems only minimal use of Photoshop was used, but ill wait for your step by step.

Bravo and congrats!

Cool work and congrats!

You're welcome and congrats for your third place!

cool work...gl

The SBS is nicely done.

Why blur the right side?

How about this one?
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1243157

great

very nice work -- lighting and compostion are first rate.

good work

Very nice mood

Well it looks more like a torch than a bulb...

great work...good luck author

fantastic work...very romantic...good luck author

congrats!!!!

Had an idea like that, just didn´t know how to do it - you did! Nice done!

Hihi...how sweet

i like this!

I really like this one! Nice work

A suggestion: what about changing the position and the color of mice? That way they won't look like simply copies.

Congrats, really well done

Congrats Duke!!! great work!

Congrats for your first place, Duke!

the first win, congratulations ^^

congrats..........

great idea!

Looks cool!

I can't see the original source here...

good chocolate efect!

good job with the shadows

maybe you could increase the bulb's opacity a bit

They showed that on a DVD ? lol. And someone bought it ? lol

This technique that u use Mark Monciardini show's on his DVD course Photoshop Top Secrets-Liquid metal...I think that the image of the castle is the same...Sorry if i wrong but i think that technique is the same.

Don't forget to credit author of the tutorial that u used...

Hmm... Delicious! Makes me wanna eat this watch immediately Good work and great SBS! And good to know, that I'm not the only one, who is always "happy" when Windows suddenly decideds to reboot

Cool (varm) idea

gud work............i love the sky.....GL