Nice job, it does look like those types of kaleidoscope!

Love the new title! Great job!

The perspective is off all around.
The man with the backpack is walking below ground, The ships in the background are very small for as close as they are to the man on the bench, and the blue railing shows no distance perspective, they are all the same width, front to back and side to side.

Interesting concept, but somewhat sloppy execution.

You're most welcome, author! Your colorful entry embodies what I had in mind, but doesn't really look much like a kaleidoscope, rather just a colorful pattern flipped and and then "echoed."

This would probably make a wonderful kaleidoscopic entry, I suggest you try one of the tutorials in the contest description, using this as your starting image...

The bits of blue sky really help accentuate the carvings!

The sign is a bit crude, and the background could be any type of tree. This would be stronger if it showed that it truly was a cypress.

What does this say???

The hound head is a bit too matte and flat finished, but the stick itself if beautifully textured and colored! You should make the hound head less gray, matching it more to the stick.

A bit over saturated on the colors, the sky is downright alien looking, those clouds are so blue!

Would have been better if you'd been able to put the sparkly socks on him...

Well worth your suffering, the focus is beautiful, and does not look compromised at all. Thank you for the most interesting "back story" behind the photo - Often times, it makes the image even more interesting!

Too dark and bland in black and white, with too much dead empty space at the top.

Beautiful photo, where is this taken?

Beautiful, clear reflection on the bottom, nice lighting!

The empty space in the foreground hurts the overall consistency of the hay bales. It would strengthen the image to crop that dead space off.

LOL! At least his sparkly socks went with him!

The angle of the photo is too extreme. It makes me want to tilt my head to see the image.

Great composition! The tree on the right beautifully balances the open area on the left, with the sheep balancing the building and darker area in the distance. Well done!

Pretty, but it looks deserted. Excellent tonal values and balance, though.

I am always impressed that people can do this type of thing with food...The front flash is a bit overpowering, but it is still a very impressive subject.

Very powerful image, but the text is unnecessary and distracting. The font is too hard to read, and the bright outline steals attention from the image. I would forego it entirely, and let the image speak on its own.

What a wonderful job you've done with the faceted stone on the end! The odd grayish streaks inside of it are a bit visually confusing and artificial, but the overall creation of this piece is very realistic looking.

What a beautiful object! You have done a remarkable job capturing the lighting on the side. Where is this, please?

I love the gloss on the top of the head in the detail photo! The tongue looks a bit odd with the vertical alignment and the shape of it (a single tongue with a forked end would look more "natural" ), but this is a truly unique construction. Nice work!

The sky shows a yellowish tint - too much of a color adjustment.

The sky shows a bit of a yellowish tint. A cooling filter adjustment should be able to help that.

What a stunning mask! Fabulous photo, to show so much detail and lighting balance without the reflections having blown out values. Truly Impressive!

Doesn't matter what it is, new or old, it's tilting almost 4 degrees down to the left. You can straighten it out so that it is level from the table corners horizontally, which will strengthen the image a lot...

What kind of food do "ethno" restaurants serve? Or, more precisely, what kind of "ethno" restaurant is this one???

The carving is overshadowed by the windows which are more visually dominant. You might consider cropping in closer to your focal point.

The lighting of the background doesn't match the lighting of the people and the shadows you've added don't match either one.

The flowers in the foreground make me think of the book "Ferdinand the Bull..." Very nice photo!

I can't make out the sink at all, it's too vague and/or transparent.

The tables all seem to be leaning down to the left...

Too much empty space around the carving, detracting from the focus. It would be better to crop off the excess and make the carving the most dominant part of the photo.

This would have been a stronger composition with the left side cropped off, and perhaps with someone standing near the rail on the right hand side near the lion, to better accent the size comparison.

There's too much visually going on, it's just a jumble, with no clear focal point or compositional movement - the eye just jumps around.

This would have looked better if the dinosaur was not on the bottom edge. Even a slight bit of incline would have given this a better composition. As is it looks like a bad photo where you've cut the feet off at the bottom...

A bit too dark, it looks like the baby is growing a beard!

Great photo.Very nice composition showing an interesting looking library!

This is a bit boring looking, with the main focus on the left panel, rather than the center. There is so much pattern repetition, it loses it's dynamism and just becomes more of a texture pattern as a photo.

Beautiful clarity and detail. Nice photo!

The overall composition of this shot is kind of boring, with the mountain in the center of the background dominating the photo and just "sitting there..." It would help the visual movement if you cropped it on the left, so that the eye would then be encouraged to come down the right side to the house at the bottom, then following the ground lines back up to the left side of the mountain to start the journey around the photo once again.

Wild angle for the house ~ It looks like it's coming out of the ground! Great mood with the sky and the colors. Nicely done!

Great photo, the vibrant red makes a really nice backdrop to the diner!

Very idyllic looking. Nice photo, but it seems to be angled too far over to the left, with a large patch of nothing left of the tree, and a chunk of the farmhouse on the right cut off. I'd either reshoot to capture more of the farmhouse, or crop to remove that deat space on the left - It's throwing the balance of the composition off.

Interesting, but the composition is a wee bit off. Not one object in the photo is visible in its entirety, except possibly one of the forks...The glass would appear to be your main focal point for the composition - Pity it's obscured by the edge of the chair.

Didn't her dress and shoes revert to rags at Midnight???

Interesting concept, but the dress seems blurry, and there is a noticeable outline on the model.

It would be nice if this showed more depth than just a basic line drawing. While it would look good as a coloring book page, it's somewhat lacking and bland beyond that.

I'd crop off the second floor of the building and the foreground up to near the feet of the frontmost chair.