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

Nice work! Just one suggestion: I'd flip one of the moons. (Oh, and make a SBS too...).
On second look, smooth the jagged edges.

Cool guy

Beautiful, love the vibrant colors

I give you props for an original idea.

I really like this one, gives me the heebie jeebies, but still.. nice feel

I would suggest for future work that you spend a bit more time on your masking. It will help refine and enhance your work. It is a pain to get it right but worth the effort.

It all starts there, no matter how good everything else is, if you have left-over pixels, smudgy bits and outlines it can ruin a great image. You idea is very good, your masking needs some more work. To get you going try checking out this tutorial on how to mask trees ... hope it helps http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/1272/How-To-Mask-A-Tree-In-3-Minutes.html

Needs a shadow since the light source is behind.

If you can't find the link you can't use the image.
EDIT: Good, you found the link! Now think about having the edges of the reflection conform to the ripples in the water.

I like the overall idea even though, looking at the high-res, the blending can be a lot improved. You might take a small (3 pxl) soft blur brush, create a new layer (check the box on top: "sample all layers" and soften the edges. This way your sources will blend better. There's also a hard edge over the bird it self, you can get rid of that with a bigger soft eraser brush set to 20% and go over the edge multiple times. Might sound like a lot of work but it isn't and it will improve your entry lot.

Partially submerged is a fun idea. But the non-solid/non-opaque ceiling arch is odd. And the soffit/cove-ceiling thing on the near right side not matched on the left side is weird that might best be solved by eliminating it from either side both near and far.

Very interesting entry, GL!

That mjrananum green girl on the vine swing is becoming her own meme...Interesting image, but the lighting of the shoe (LH top) does not match the tree (RH side), nor the cow (RH top)...It does match the green foliage on top of the tree, which is also reversed, though...
You may want to try adding some highlights with the Dodge tool at low opacity on the RH side, or flip the shoe. If you reverse the tree and the shoe foliage, the image will look more consistent than at present...
Light source direction is an important consideration.

It's kind of dark, but the worms are a great touch! Love how you hollowed his face.

Super cool scary image...gl author

This is a nice entry! Fixing some minor issues would further improve it:
1. That metal pipe ( whatever is called ) must be cut out with pen tool in order to avoid chunky shape. Afterwards Ctrl click layer go to Select -modify , contract 2 pixels, invert selection and blur it. Same for the lemon slice in foreground.
Maybe overlaying the sky color on it at a lower oppacity would increase the blending.
2. Use blur and slight desaturation for the lemons in the background to create a better sense of depth.

interesting refreshing image...nice colors and some cool effects...GL author

biggest minus - shadowed lemon... there should be a lighting on the lemon, not a shadow...

the color of the liquid in the glass doesn't show any of the blue behind it. The extra lemon slices look shadowed. The ice blue ice cubes in the water are the wrong blue. The glass doesn't sit in the water deep enough, it looks like it's on top of the water.

Refreshing, but that's not a martini glass and why is the foreground lemon shadowed instead of casting a shadow?

Lots of cool stuff, but some problems as well: The space-suit guys are WAY too big. The stars wouldn't shine through the moon, neither the lit nor dark portions.

If you could somehow make all the parts share the same light source...that would be really cool. The people need to have their left sides light and right sides darker. This is very surreal and cool...and with the suggestion I've made it might help it be even better. Just a thought. Nice job, author! I like your thinking.

These might be the goddesses of stone? lol! Gud luck author.

Needs a reflection.

Obvious distortion of the woman, otherwise just clean up a few edges & it's an interesting entry.

the idea is cool, but the woman is flat and I would like to see SBS.

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looks like this was done in M$ paint. Text looks very plain, unbelievable, and the image is very grainy. Not to mention Osama is believed to be dead.

cool work author...love the approach...small nit pick...skin color on his hand is way different of his face color...but maybe that is ok cause in terrorist camps his face is always exposed to the sun, but his hands are always in the pockets...

cool work...gl

Good idea, but Bin Laden's head is distorted, and I doubt we'd ever see him in a suit & tie! GL author.

Oh my...very imaginative!! I like that you chose Time for your magazine!

Bin Laden's head/face needs to be blurred a bit. Maybe a little noise and slight desaturation too. I like the idea although it's kinda scary. GL author.

Interesting!

Good aproach to the real Michael. Good luck.

nice work...gl

cool interpretation author...good luck

lol..i like this a lot..maybe the eye lashes need to be longer and dont forget the heavy eyeliner -then it will definitely resemble michael. GREAT JOB!

I'm glad that people like it, I don't No offence man, but there's just too much going on.
I get the skull breaking through her head skin, and the blood and the flames. But why do you need cigare smoke over the fire and 2 of the same rose on top?

Disturbing, but very creative! The jaw is too warped and the LH side of the "flames" is a bit too high contrast, fighting the image for dominance, but the overall concept is wonderful.

BTW, welcome to PXL!

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Not that you need it much but GL!

Great effects author and very nice work...gl

It's so weird! But I like it!

In a good way of course.

Those eyes are piercing!

Very interesting composition ... the outline around her could be softened a bit ... it is a little rough in Hi res (using the blur tool on a very low setting can help eliminate this and/or a low setting clone over the outline helps too).

Edit: Clever solution to the issue

I can see this in the game of Final Fantasy!

Fascinating image ... the concept is lovely. In hi-res I noticed it could use a little clean up on the chop of the woman. A little smoother cut around the hand and removing the stray pixels would help.

Lovely image though!

Too blurry, rather than smoky/misty/ethereal. The stars also look a little flat and fakey.