Great concept, but there are a couple technicals hurting the execution. The tilted mouse on the right is off-kilter to the rest of the image, looking like it should be falling over at that angle, and the mouse behind the glasses should be showing some distortion from the curvature of the glass - it would not be so perfectly aligned, because the glasses are curved front and back, not flat like a pane of glass.

Your shadows of the added elements also need work to match the contest source.

The bike is too far forward in the picture plane (think Rule of Thirds), with too much dead space behind it.

Excellent concept, I love the zipper effect! You need to add a bit more shading to the roses coming out of her back, they are sitting above the image, rather than being part of it. Perhaps desturating the color very slightly and adding some shadows where they are over the skin will help. Very nicely done!

Wonderful colors and shading, you've definitely set a higher bar in this competition. Good job!

What a fascinating story behind the photo!
I find most fascinating, the footnote to the story.

"Coincidently since the building of the Tower of Refuge and up till the present day no ships have founded on the rocks..."

Congratulations on your well deserved win!
~M

The solid black of the glass contents is a bit distracting, with the beautiful lights of the background, but still a nice entry!

Great job, I love the way her hat turned out!
You need to post your source link or an SBS so this great entry doesn't get yanked!

I like the way you put fish in the uprights. You could have a goldfish outside the one on it's side, too!

Really nice colors for this effect.

Great photo selection, this has a wonderful mood to it. Well done!

Are those dates or figs in the bread? It looks delicious. Very nice photo!

Much improved, great photo!

Excellent capture of the detail of this very transient effort!

Great correction, it looks very realistic for use "in the sunset of our lives..." Well done, author!

Great improvement, wonderful results!

Beautiful, the crust is wonderfully bubbly!

This needs just a bit of a black outline to make it an outstanding cartoon. Good choice of subject.

Beautiful lighting on the pistola.

Cutting off the bottom of this, with no background to help with perspective, hurts the overall render - It's hard to tell if it's a walking stick, or a really fancy cocktail skewer. Beautiful detail on the top, though. The carved areas where the head joins the staff are an especially nice touch.

Her hand looks a bit blotchy, you may want to select just that portion and rework the colors, but this came out quite well.

A bit washed out, with the edges of the skin too light compared to the middle, and the hair looks too pale, but a great photo. Source link?

Great motion capture! Good compostion, too.

Shame you cut his feet off at the bottom. Nice color and focus, though.

I'd also change the camera angle to show off more of the bread, rather than the basket.

These sound tasty. They look a bit underdone, but the rise of the dough is very nice. Now I need to try to find a recipe!

Are these "Pao de Queijo," made with tapioca instead of wheat flour?

Great expression on the baby's face. Nice job!

She has a really large forehead, judging from the positioning of the facial features. I really like the light reflections on her face, though.

The light fixture in the upper left hand corner is distracting and takes attention away from your focal point, the crystal clear TV. I'd crop it off, so that the TV retains dominance of the photo.

I have a life, thank you, as well as color calibrated monitors, and I check things on both. If you want her to look like she has gum disease, that's your choice.

Great render - It tells a story, and makes you wonder why it is abandoned on the street, unsheathed...Looks like it didn't help the owner when he tried to use it...You should add a bit of blood onto the street or the blade. Nice work!

Can't really see much of smile at all, just a nose and...sunglasses?, with some teeth barely visible if you look hard.

I want one of those! Wish the photo wasn't quite so dark and that there was less empty space all around.

Nice effect, very rich color.

Great effect!

Looks like a manipulation to me, author. I'd leave it in the contest, you've done a nice job, the color manipulations are well done!

The black line on the top of her teeth is distracting, otherwise, good job!

You should have entered this in the Cartoon Effect contest. It's great!

The color banding is very distracting.

Really crude and pixelated edges and lines. You might try one of the free online applications like pixlr.com or splashup.com, which have much better painting tools and do not require you to download anything.

A bit off center on her head, but great job on the skin!

Stunning chop. Truly beautiful work.

Over a billion arteries clogged! Great picture, love the ratty lathe under the sign...

Good effect, but the man's face looks "dirty." You might want to paint adjust it a bit more...

I've never seen a parking lot with a "No Swimming" sign before...

The tilt of the lines, combined with the blurry person, hurts the focal point of your image (library). You can't help the motion blur, but you should straighten the crop for this using the ceiling horizontal as your benchmark, rotating the photo slightly to the right to correct the downward left tilt.

Where did escar go? LOLOLOL! Oh, how I've wanted to use that joke for YEARS! Great photo, and great joke for me...Good job!

The drop shadow makes it look like the dinosaur is standing in front of a picture of a hill...

What a wonderful entry - It truly reflects the way a kaleidoscope works. Very well done!

What a great collection, you can't help but smile back at them!