cool ! gl auth

The semi-nudity is bothering me... sorry, but the concept is great!

Very nice work...this capsule need more work...rigt side and top need's a bit more 3d effect.Try to experiment with spherize filter and with warp tool...good luck author

Interesting concept, but I think the dome looks flat and the abdomen portion looks like a pasted-on picture. The leg portion looks only slightly less flat. Plus the vanishing point of the floor does not match the vanishing point of her 'test tube' [much lower horizon].

Hmmm...links are fine now.

Interior of abdomen needs a different color (maybe darker/more red) for depth...otherwise nice image.

That is (even it did not win) a beautiful entry my friend, congrats....

Great blending, magic picture

Very surreal! GL!

The mood is great

Wow...nice!

awesome!

GREAT work ! Love the concept...

I like this. Good sbs.

A wonderful idea, well done and good luck.

Nice work Maybe slightly change the lighting on the bottom of the lamp post. It bugs me slightly. Other than that I love the entire thing

Perspective is a bit confusing...I would have raised his "cage" so the bottom part was above the horizon line...but the mood & color is good.
EDIT: Looks great now, author...good luck!

I'm wondering if the large chandelier at least wouldn't cast a shadow.... very nice work overall, tho, interesting effect for the steps.

wow ! nice

very nice ambient and work!

nice idea

Idea is great,sources is good but if u had time to blend old guy and the tree better that would be fantastic...still,very nice entry...

The snake is cool

Good luck author... nice idea

Stunning!

Good choice of colors and tones....excellent mood and fantastic message induced! Great job!

looking good

nice chop!

Cool..

The blend is not that great......But a nice work....

Beautiful work author.....infact a lot of hard work...and a lot of improvement in your work as well....

Amazing imagination and absolutely fantastic work....

A beautiful blend....Nice work....A lot of pissing i guess... but a good work...

Nice work, such language Bob

Interesting idea. Works great.

Spooky surreal!

I'm not a fan of using anyone else's images if I can help it. Unfortunately I don't have photographs of snakes and marble columned doors stored in my camera to use. But I can easily use my own images of grass, birds and maybe even mushrooms.What I don't understand is what's the difference between DA images and images from any other source, like flickr creative commons. Why is DA always attacked here? I really like this image. Particularly fond of the placement of the snake. It just makes so much sense to me.

nicely done

Another great one, this competition has some fantastic entries, it's gonna be tough to call, best of luck.

Try to blend the body & tree better...color is good.

Snake's a nice touch! Really like this one!

Very nice work.I am big fan of DA images.Yes its true that they very good made,but without imagination and lots of work,no one can guaratee final result...good luck author,this is very nice work...

thanks for the explanation -- didn't know that was an option ... nice job, btw

love the work! the crosses are my only issue.. the lighting is good, but they seem to lack the grittiness of the rest of the image.... maybe age them a bit or find some real wood texture to put over them... GOOD LUCK!!

pretty awesome!

LoL! love it... couple things though.... check your lighting source... the gnome has too much light on his side when light is coming more from the front of him. also the shadow on the pee stream is on the wrong side. light source is on the same side as the shadow? GL!!

Great image!!!

heheheeh ...

Love it

i'm confused ... how does ponti55 know that 'author' is getting better every week if "Participants (are) hidden until contests end" ... ???