THIS IS AWESOME. i love the emotion pouring from it. granted, the upper left corner is really blown out, but... i just LOVE the shot. really do.

Extra points for your creativity when you took this shot = )

Ahhh, I see. Very nice setup. I was kind of wondering why the edges of the flower looked the way they do. Is it possibly from Curves?

Lazy or not...wonderful! Thanks for the explanation...us newbies always need direction on good lighting!

I didn't know they had wheelchairs 2000 years ago.

Quite different, and very good.

This is really cool....but what did you do to it to make it look that way?

A beautiful meaningful photograph. Well done.

You got me, author. Totally didn't know this was you until I voted on it. Great work as always!

) very big idea ) with the chocolate , and the lightning, grat

Excellent, how did you do the lightening?

Great idea!

Those Rochers are my favourite...i hate you for this!

Awesome - right on theme

HAH!

You need to upload an SBS

This is fantastic!!!

GRRRREAT!!!

well thought out, well shot. Well done!

I didn't expect that, (the original)

extremely creative!!

ahhhh, Detroit zoo???

Congrats, great shot and angle.

Nice POV! GL!

wow, its seems like a huge zip coming from the lights.

Philips sense and simplicity.

very cool close up!!

what a amazing perspective...best of luck author

Now that would be a cool setup!!!

Nice... too bad it's a Canon

OHHHHH, I guess I didn't even notice that there were 6 die up there before :O My bad.

Super cool view and macro shot =)

MnM, maybe this will clear things up:
The goal is to take a panorama shot around an object (basically, shoot pictures of every side of your subject in a 360 degree pattern). Using Photoshop you then have to stitch these images together to form one continuous image (which is why we get that long, stretched effect - think of a globe that is cut in half and laid out flat on a table). It creates an interesting look and is very challenging to do from a technical aspect because everything must be done manually (which can take multiple hours - something our friends in the Photoshop contests can chuckle at). :P Hope this helps!

Well I like the picture a lot but not understanding enough on the details of this (hince why I didn't enter) but I do like the shot.

Very nice perspective on this one... good job

Jeaniblog, stole my comment.

wait, who said we had to go around the item side to side and then top to bottom too? The author is correct on how he/she did it because there are only 4 sides around a die. Yes, six sides but only 4 AROUND it.

Boy did I ever think you were someone else

Yeah, try a more challenging surface, like a basketball...

A little too simple if you ask me. All the sides are flat. How hard could it have possibly been to get them to line up. Oh and Ade is right you wouldn't see the tops.

Great angle!

Very nice..

sorry if I am being a muppet, but if this were a 360, would you not only see 4 of the six sides.....the top and bottom sides would not be visible.......

Wow! That is fantastic!

Wow! This is a great shot, author.

Congrats Adam, lovely image.

Congrats for your first place, Adam!

Very nice, you've picked a really cool location = )

Very original idea. GL!

22 vertical shots... omg...
I'm happy there are things I definitely don't know how to do. This way it's a neverending surprise to look at (most of ) the incredible shots in this contest...
Chapeau, author!