I love the texture and the panels on the door. Great work. I agree that the lighting is a bit weird, it almost looks as if the mat is glowing, but all-in-all it's not too bad imo.

The heavy shading on the sides, with the center lighter makes the "Welcome" hard to read, and is somewhat contrary to the fact that generally, mats are dirtier in the center from foot traffic. Your light source is not clearly defined, as it looks like it is coming from the lower left, when logic would dictate it should be from the upper right, as a porch light.
The "dirt" is too light, and looks like dandruff.

The textures are beautiful, and the rendering itself is quite good. It is just a few visual inconsistencies that are impeding you.

nice work

excellent, good luck

very artistic, love it, good luck

Now, this is a toss! This is the tossiest!

Great shot, good luck!

This is an awesome picture.

Very nice entry, good luck!

Honestly I just liked the hair of the brush .... other materials are rather weak(If I can say so)
But the overall work is good ... GL Author

BTW: nice refraction

This is so cool.. I love it..
now I wish if I could've entered this contest..

Love it

wow amazing shot

wonderful abstract

nice entry.... which software have u used?

I admire your perseverance, it paid off.

Great idea, but your subject (the brush) is lost with all the surroundings and is too small. The glass looks more to be your focal point. Perhaps zoom in more and crop all the surrounding excess...

Maybe a little too much HDR - it has created a halo around the object that are adjacent to the blue in the sky

very nice, like like like

Best picture ever! oh well, almost the best picture ever! Congratulations, great shot, good luck!

congrats great job

Congratulations

How many bulbs did you have to break before not breaking the filament?

Nice one.....Good Luck Author.

Unbelievable....what an amazing shot! Fantastic Job...good luck.

oooo.. is it a japanese mask ?

strange and beautiful mask !

nice mask...

I'm not sure what you mean by 'using the foreground as the horizon' but the horizon is definately not level

amazing

Great timing!

great job done here.

Wonderful picture, author. Now how about Rosslyn Chapel, or is it too far away from where you live? Kidding of-course.

A beautiful photograph.

Beautiful, well done.

and please straighten the horizon.

well done, did you write it like that, or flip the image?

the head dress needs a soft drop shadow to blend better IMHO (it looks a bit pasted), but the idea is quite good.. good luck author.. (the finished image could use a filter over the finished images to make the textures blend)... nice job

Wonderful effort. The only nit-pik is the leaning of the trees on both sides due to barrel distortion. You can adjust it by skewing out the corners a wee bit (Ctrl + F, hold Ctrl. key as you drag a top corner out horizontally, then repeat with the bottom corner to create a "negative" barrel distortion. Work at a higher magnification to see where the trees start to bend.

It's a bit too dark at the bottom to appreciate the effect. If you can adjust the contrast to bring the foreground tones up a bit, it would really help this photo.

cute. Maybe re-create the movie scene? But this is nice too

Wow, very nice cane, good luck!

Nice concept, good luck!

very nice, I think I would have cropped it, to cut out the stand.

scary, nice shot

check the goal, The idea is a SINGLE rooftop....

great effort ....... high marks
fantastic caustics
are they new ??? cause I didn't notice them yesterday .......

Looks fantastic, love the vibrant colors.

Wow ... love the diamond. Sparkly and superbly done. Love to get on of this Well done

Very well done model - artistic and realistic. Probably by including the usability as well, such as handle to hold the walking stick above the dragon head without diminishing the overall artistic value of it might be able to mass produce it in the future