LOLOL! Great image!
Have you seen the new movie short that came out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk

Wow, what a difference between the two! The detail is stunning. Well done!

LOL! Great photo - Would have been even more believable if you'd taken the picture on the same background...took a moment for me to figure it out...
~M

Love the reflection! Did you have to write it backwards?

Where's Mr. Haney?
Lovely color and contrast.

The rain drops look like amoebas under a microscope - there are no water trails, and they are illuminated oddly...The solid color sky, and the crude silhouette scribble drawing just emphasize the "not really rain-like" effect.
It just looks like something done quickly without much effort, sorry.

This is truly a stunning and awesome photo. Where is it?

I love this! Very creative and funny. Excellent and clean execution. My fav!

Beautiful depth and colors!

Nice angle!

Interesting photo. Pity the sign isn't a bit sharper to easily read what it says.

The size proportions are odd on this one, with your dog appearing huge next to your son dog...The son dog also appears to be looking up, not at your dog, which adds to the sense that it's not really "fool the eye." It looks like two random dog images put together...

Love the storefront, great image!

Oooh, a mystery! Nice mood.

Great find!

Nice job, good coloring!

This is simply awesome, I love it!

Very interesting!

Really nice capture - it almost looks like a snail made of water...

Great focal depth and composition!

Too dark, a silhouette effect doesn't work when the main shape is fairly shapeless...And the rain looks more like flying straws - the sharp angles on the ends don't connote "rain..."

Lots of ground cover lost. Are you in a drought? Really nice color range, good photo.

Very clean work and quite imaginative!

Nice mood! I'd maybe add some stars to the sky, but I like this!

You caught him at just the right instant that he looks like he only has one leg and is leaning as if he's starting to fall over!

The photo tilts ever so slightly down to the left...(about 1 1/2 degrees by Photoshop's measurement tool). If you level it out at the top step, it would strengthen the image considerably.

Nice picture from a moving car!

Elegant subject, nice composition.

Very impressive image. How many times did you have to shoot this before you captured just the right moment, and what was your shutter speed?

Very nice composition. I like how the water looks like a solid surface.

Beautiful photo that captures the water without looking blurry!

Dramatic change, nice work!

Imaginative and cute!

Ummm...now you've lost all major reference to the tilted bulb contest source...Just having it as the bright spots on the flowers is a minimal use at best, making this a nice CBR, but a bit of a topic stretch...But it'll probably still win, because too many voters couldn't care less about the amount of contest source when compared to the "wow" factor.

The top part looks much better now.

Mucho gooder! Everything looks like one image, now. Nice fix!

Pixlr is wonderful for online manipulations, and since you don't have to download it onto your PC, it doesn't take up disk space. The tools are powerful, with most of the more important ones similar to Photoshop - Levels, Curves, Hue & Sat, Brightness & Contrast, etc...It also has a good selection of filters (Gaussian and other Blurs, Sharpen, Diffuse, Noise, Emboss, etc.), as well as Burn and Dodge, Bloat and Shrink, and a decent color replace tool.

It's almost like having "Photoshop Lite" available for free online...I'll stack it up against GIMP any day, Robdvn...

Author, you'll find that you can use a lot of basic Photoshop tutorials with Pixlr, since the tools are similarly marked. Selections are the most important thing you can master, and the Lasso Tool and Magic Wand will end up being some of your best friends in Photo Manipulation... Have fun, glad I could help!

~M

The source photo is too blue and cool in tone, while the bears are too yellowed and warm in tone. Maybe apply a cooling filter to the bears and desaturate the blues of the contest source so everything is a bit more consistent.

I like the first shot better...More focus on the house, no people, better angle.

Too much dead space at the top with the fog. At least the water at the bottom offers some ripples and a whirlpool...

The fact that this is a real photo, and not a manipulation is hard to comprehend...Nice photo!

Looks "heavenly!"

Great photo, from the smoke, to the lighting, to the manly arm!

This is utterly delightful!

The left leg looks terribly deformed, not to mention much longer than the right...You also need cleaner edges where you cut yourself out of the original picture, there's a white line on the head and the right leg...

Since you don't have yellow sneakers, maybe you can put a fishing pole in your hand and a bobber in the glass.

The blown out values of the lights over dominate the composition, making the stairs a secondary focal point. A polarizing filter would have helped this a lot.

Kind of weird where the bird meets the water. Are those additional shark fins all aroung the base? The setting sun is a bit smeary, but the water itself is quite well done.

Love the expression on his face!

Very dramatic improvement.

The background is very crude looking, and even with the reflections, the stools look like they are floating. The separation line between the wall and the floor is almost in the center of your image, a compositional "no no," as it bisects the image.
It's an original idea, but the techinical execution leaves something to be desired, and only using the source image does not warrant much.