Well done...lively & humorous!

The synopsis of this is great! Nice storytelling thru excellent work. Great job...love the foreground figure in front of the light source. Brilliant.

Everyone should see this in high resolution to appreciate it. It's great, author!

Fantastic work author

sorry.. doesn't look anything like a strawberry cheesecake.. Looks more like one of those pirate flags with incredible work and fantastic detail.. the overall hand work is spectacularly intricate and very professional... doesn't look ANYTHING like a cheesecake.. don't worry.. you will get better author.. LOL..

(WOW.. and WOW again.. the High res is AWESOME!!!! now if you could add tinker bell, we'd have a super cheesy image.. LOL)

Great job.. I'd hire you in a minute to paint all the murals I dream of in my house LOLOL) (I want my kitchen coated in whip cream and strawberry cheese cake.. with a Giant Portabella mushroom somewhere_)

GOOD LUCK (instant fav as well)

Brilliant work! To all who question the blur - IMHO it's MOVING! being sucked down the throat of that beast in the back. Great cleanup job, author, and really creative work.

Great and creepy creature work!!! Love what you have done and the colours and composition are excellent!

Fantastic piece of work author...There is few great elements fitted perfectly with the overall mood...well done

I love your work! Something surreal, like a dream!

Too dark. It's hard to see and appreciate exactly what's going on. Underwater light wouldn't be such a tightly focused yellow beam from the upper corner.

Come on; we all know that species of Anguilliformes prefers metalic blue lures... lol

Nice work!

great image, only the line for the lure ... i think it should be light gray and a bit transparent , not brownish

Great work.

@Drivenslush: I think the blur is indicative of submersion.

Really creative use of source! Not sure I'd want to mess with that fish once I 'lured' it.

I agree - awesome pic. your sbs doesn't really explain how the teeth were done - could you give a better explaination?

Super duper chop.. but in all honesty.. I think you blurred it too much.. (your steps show a very awesome clear image.. but that's just me.. excellent creation and super fav.. good luck.. but I don't really think you need it) Reminds me of the scene under water in Star Wars Episode 1.. hehehe with all the fish eating the bigger fish.. LOL.. good luck

all IMHO.. of course.. I love this whole concept.. and the work on the teeth is exhausting.. you owe me lots of Starbucks Espresso.. LOL

Creative.. well done

Great painting author...one of the best in the contest for sure...gl

Nice, I see Mary and Joseph, Where is Jesus? I like it, a new vision for this glass, GL.

Nice vision. Didn't see figures from the original...but it's vivid and pronounced here.

congratulations...

Congrats!!

Nice , surreal feeling to this and very well done.

Beautiful work here... love the dummies and the way you used your imagination to create this entry. GL

Very modernistic approach, clever work, author. I'm not sure what it means, but that's what makes it true art!

Just love it...simple but very impressive

VEry clever idea =)

This is delightful and whimsical, author. I credit your creativity in using a different portion of the source other than the main object in it. Love the combination of image and digital painting, too.

I wonder why no one notice another entries who use less of source image - for example those entries who could be constructed from any other source image (the pieces of source are used only for their texture or color...) I like this entry, at least you could recognise a good piece of source. Good job!

Nice image , but have to agree a bit with mossyB

Absolutely fascinating image ... you have created a unique and diverse piece here ... it has a subtle message and I am going to fav it so I can keep coming back and see if I can figure out what it means (to me).

would be perfect on the cover of a children's book. Very lovely, great imagination!

Very pleasant scene ... interesting takes on the source.

My only "critique" would be that the little boat is perhaps a bit too centered ... it would add a little more life to the image if it was not directly in the middle of the image ... see here for Rule of Thirds and composition info http://photoinf.com/General/KODAK/guidelines_for_better_photographic_composition_rule_of_thirds.html ).

Sorry I am so late with my comment I know there is nothing you can do now but thought for next time

Romantic image, really beautiful!

Very nice result, gl

Scenic atmosphere with nice composition.

Different approach author but great final product...well done

Gostei das sombras e cores

Good thinking, good color!

Pretty, but too CBR.
EDIT: "CBR" = Chopped Beyond Recognition. It's when you create a "jigsaw puzzle image by deconstructing the source image so badly that you could have used any image of anything to create with, because the original source is no longer visibly identifiable within the chop.

Warping, recoloring, and adding to an image is one thing. Chopping into such "mystery meat" shapes minimizes it's use in the final image. While it's allowed, (In the opinion of some), it's not the best example of one's chopping skills.

Very Beatrix Potter only transported to modern day

Imaginative and beautiful. Nice approach to use the source without the swing. It belongs in a classic storybook, my friend.

WOW!

Great creativity and execution

nice image!! very original entrie! GL

Really strange... I like it!!
Good luck!

very neat intelligent work....instant fav from me author...best of luck

lovely creation, I love how the one figure is walking into the masses .. good luck!!!

Great work...it's beyond surreal. It made me smile...since at first I thought they were crash test dummies being used to test park benches. It then became thought provoking. Nice job!

Would fit in well framed in a contemporary high rise apartment. Nice job, good luck!