Beautiful!

I was thinking Aerosmith, too! I would have liked to see an eye, too. Or that the shadow was so straight across. But the image is AWESOME!

Nice emtional imapact, too!

Red won but they kept playing?

Excellent! @Giulia: If you look at the balls you can SEE exactly where the light source is and you will see that the shadows are correct. You don't make shadows in 3D. Your light source does.

Fantastic. I really like the way the picture is colored like a child would. Actually, when I was a child I would only color the top of the page blue because I thought that was where the sky was!

I love love LOVE the tree reflection on the ball!

Why don't people understand that the Disney version that you're familiar with is NOT all encompassing of Allice in Wonderland? Before voting and making comments it should be understood that there is a LOT more to Alice then what you think you know! Nice image Author. Has a nice feel to it.

Funny.

Obviously there are people here who watch too much Disney and don't do enough reading! Even more recent Alice movies include Jaberwocky in the story. YES this is part of Alice in Wonderland! It will be sad if people vote based on their own ignorance.

Nice job!

Author: Cool. I wasn't sure if you'd done it on purpose. I think that it's great! Good idea throwing off the symetry with that.

I miss my teddy bears. One my grandmother gave me when I was a baby somehow got lost right after she died when I was 14! The other was a little panda bear that I couldn't even tell you when I stopped crying when I thought about him!

Spectacular. I just hope that as a child, your playroom didn't have a cold marble floor on which to play!

I like this sun! The movement of the background and crispness of the edges. The smily face.

Nice idea!

Only thing I find wierd about this is that the perspective goes to a point just below the light source at the back, but the light source is just to the left of it. So it makes it look off kilter in the back. Good composition, though.

Really nice idea and execution!

Spectacular! Good job!

Fantastic!

Excellent idea.

There's another image in this contest that uses a checkerboard floor. It's a great idea and you will find that the vast majority of renaissance paintings use some type of checkerboard pattern in the floor/ground to give the illusion of depth. Called an orthogonal grid. The problem with this image is that the angle of the checkerboard is such that you don't get that illusion because the vanishing points of the checkers is to the left and right of the vanishing point of the rest of the image. However, if this is your intention the image is fantastic. I am particularly fond of the lollypops.

Nice image.

Spooky surreal!

I'm happy to see this again and I never saw it the first time! Favorite.

I understand what you're saying with the light and dark, masculine and feminine, but I don't really see much difference in the lightness and darkness from one part to another. And if there was, those elements aren't really placed in such a way that I would see how they give the image ballance in such a way that making one element darker than the other hopes to achieve. That being said: This image is absolutely FANTASTIC and NOTHING that I said even matters. High HIGH marks from me.

@Ray Tedwell: I see it. The empty chair represents (his) absense. The Owl represents his flight. The watermelon represents the sweetness of her memory of him. The hand is the persistance of this memory as it hangs over her head. Not random at all IMHO. Very nice work, Author.

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.

Your own take on this is excellent!

Ya! Das ist ein boot! Und fische. Ser gut.

Beautiful!

I like this idea.

Fantastic!

Finally! A heart like the description.

I LOVE cows!

Pretty!

Oooh! Another cow! I wish that I'd seen the huge rooster before you resized it!

Really nice choices for the faces!

Pretty.

They ARE cute!

You've done a very nice job with your back ground. It fits Feeva very well! And he's still cute!

Ooh, pretty!

Spectacular!

Very very good! Haha@ vitalexpressions!

I don't see why someone said you can't use text! That's crazy. But I didn't see this entry befoe you got rid of it. It might be better without it. Most entries are.

Nice job with the shading.

The lights in he eyes and the highlights on her cheeks are nicely done!

That sun is spectacular. This is definitely a favorite.

I like the pink light around he moon.

I love his nose! Really cool.