This is hilarious and very well done. Love the imagination behind the image. Thanks for the laugh!

That would be cool, but I meant I'd love to see the "Real World" sky full of these!
If you add more to your image, just don't "cookie cutter" use the same one, okay? Better to leave it be than detract with clones...

~M

I'd crop some of the excess green off the sides, so more of the focus is on the butterfly.

What a cool idea! The heat from the bulb provides the lift! Great image, very fun. I'd love to see the sky full of these!

Since the butterfly occupies so little of the picture plane with it's wings folded, you might consider cropping off some of the excessive greenery on the right. It will still leave the pink blossom for the Rule of Thirds, and will help return the focal point to the butterfly. Right now, the two flowers are more dominant.

LOLOL! I saw that picture and thought, "Hey! I had a frame that looks just like that!" Yup, typical repair...Great shot, good lines, nice lighting.

Nice composition and balance. The ball isn't target centered, and the tree shape echoes the hand very nicely. Well done!

This would look better if the color of the ears matched the horse.

Since the light is shining from the side, the shadow on top of the pants (??) looks out of place. Also, the curve is distracting, as if it is his knee beneath the fabric, the anatomy is way off.

The wing on the left should be showing some shadow from the wing on the right. It's too bright along the top near the body.

The shadow on magicsteve's face is pizza shaped, not grapes, and the grapes are too illuminated on the "dark side" - they should be brighter closer to the viewer, and darker on the top, where the hand shadow would cast.

Excellent job of getting the verticals perpendicular, but he dead space on the left throws the balance off. I'd crop that, along with the window bottoms, to help the overall unity of the piece.

It looks a bit odd for the creature to be looking up at...nothing. It would be a stronger image if you gave it some sort of background to match the title, and had the creature looking at that.

This is a nice shot. It shows a form of waiting that brings a smile to my face.

The center of focus is a bit off. The doll's feet are blurry, and the doll hand on the left is totally out of focus.

Beautiful concept, but the yellow buildings are a bit too saturated and sickly looking with too much of a green tone. Perhaps a bit more of a pale brownish color to make them less dominant, so that the balloon can remain the focal point.

The head does not look attached to the body, it appears to be floating well in front of it, which is accented by the shadow on the bottom and the inconsistent lighting. The right side is so dark, you can barely make out the balloon ear on that side, while the white area behind the head on the left is distracting.

I'm not quite sure what you were attempting with this piece, author, but it looks very "thrown together," rather than composed.

Great capture. I think you could crop a bit of all the dead space on the sides off, but the magic of this image still comes across well.

I especially like the way the middle finger, which is essentially blocking the light, shows a bit of glow through the skin at the tip, and is framed by the hand at its base.

I agree with Nator, the window is your focal point, the over-reaction of the sales manager adds nothing to the image, other than a bit of aggravation at her attempt at censorship...
The doorway also emphasizes the off-perpendicular angle, but not in a good way...

The monochome makes it a bit bland, and the heavy values on the right with the light values on the left basically bisect the picture plane in almost the target center. The shape in the mirror is placed target center of the image, giving this a somewhat bland composition, that avoids the Golden Mean, the "Rule of Thirds," and most other accepted compositional general guidelines.

It's nice, just kind of boring as a composition.

At first glance, I thought this was for the Photoshop sunglass contest...I couldn't quite figure it out with the tape, and then I read the description...lol! Fun photo, good setting with the sunblock bottle!

Thanks, itsmymoment! I knew I couldn't be the only one who understood what the contest goal was, here!

Left handed has nothing to do with it. The horizon line tilts down to the left, leading the eye over to the too-much-in-focus group of trees over there, which over dominate the supposed intended goal of the out-of-focus leading fence lines up to the right.

Beautiful blend work, the texturing is very nice. Well done!

This looks very cut and paste, as the color does not blend with the hair, and it does not look like it is attached to the hair, or the hair attached to it...Perhaps making the beaver tail into a hairstyle on the head, or better color matching, or something to provide a better illusion...

Nice composition. The lines lead to the ocean, but the rocks bring the eye back to the bottom to travel up again...Good job!

Nice shoes, too...

Good thing you added the motion blur to the pizza box, otherwise we'd have to wonder how magicsteve was holding it up, and I don't thing any of us want to go there!

"The Stink Bug Spa?" LOLOL!

The shadow lines really add another dimention to this shot, particularly since the sections seem straight, but the shadows tell another story...Lovely focus, with everything very crisp and sharp looking.

Hahahaha, love it. Especially since for all the rubber bands and string, the sole is still not back near the shoe...Very fun entry!

This is funny and wonderfully colored! Really nice work especially the background.

Since you colored the text on the box, you should color the text at the bottom as well.
The shading is a bit too heavy, the bottom of the 'J' is almost completely obscured, and it does not correspond well with magicsteve's feet.
I think you should also move the words closer together.

Great focus and lighting, with a very nice subject. You've done a wonderful job of capturing the gills of the cap!

It looked better without the skull, which adds nothing to the image.
The additional nipples also look like overkill.
You also have way too much dead space on the sides.
It was a good image as it was. Now it's trying too hard...

That's not a cockroach...

Great source to turn into a balloon!
The cloud lit from below looks out of place, though. A different background would help, but it's still a cute entry!

This is a wonderful photo. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Did you have to wait long to capture this moment, and was it "luck" that you found this subject, or had you been aware of it, and just waiting for it to mature?

You've captured a miraculous moment very well.

The crop really helped this image be even more impressive. The subtle colors of the log in the foreground is impressive, and the focal depth is spot on, with just enough of the image being crystal clear, without too much blur. The toadstools look like they could be animated, with happy little faces. Well done!

With a body that large, I can understand why he (or she) would be worn out...lol! Beautiful color range, but the focus is a bit too high - the edge of the wing closest to the viewer is blurry.

The ears are all too identical, and the color is too pink for the lions.

Seems like a very tiny area of focus, showing only a narrow band of the chocolates with nut toppings clearly, and not even the full plate of those is clear. It's nice, but seems a bit too limited.

The entire gray blur in front is a bit too large and distracting. You could crop it off to about the middle of the "spot" on the bottom, which would help this a lot.

Great description. Nice photo.

Pretty, but it seems a bit bland.
I would have cropped the photo to eliminate the colored shape in the lower RH corner.

It still looks like one ear, duplicated 3 times, with 2 of them flipped. The "cookie cutter" effect weakens the image. You could use the Liquify Tool to vary them a little...

Nice shot, it might have been stronger if a bit more of the fence in the distance were visible - it disappears a bit too quickly. Nice sky and clouds colors.

The leading lines are VERY direct here! It's a nice composition, with the positioning of the light house really well thought out, but you've managed to angle the horizon to bisect the picture plane at almost the exact middle...This would have been much stronger if you'd been able to hold your camera higher (my husband actually has a step ladder in his trunk for this type of thing), so that the horizon line would be a bit lower...Rule of Thirds, don't 'cha know...

It's hard to tell how low you were, there's not enough ground showing to provide a visual reference point for the viewer.

Beautiful focus, HDR? The lighting of the clouds provides a beautiful framing effect, I just wish it had more of a "grounded" feel...

This is a fun concept, love the title!

I think I figured this one out...The water is actually going into the bottle, not out, right? (I've been thinking so hard for a couple of hours now...smoke's been coming out of my ears as my brain gears have overheated!)

Very interesting shot. Good lighting!

Very artistic find, and a nice shot, showing good clarity for all the different line elements.

There is a dark bar behind the grass that looks very strange, and the reflected leaves are more saturated and solid looking than the "real ones" above the water, which are too translucent, they look blurry, and are a bit hard to look at.
The side of the building and the bright decorations hanging from the roof are too bright for night, with the moon shining from above, which should also make the leaves more subdued.