Congrats for your fourth place.

Nice image. Good luck.

EXCELLENT FIX AUTHOR! Great!!!! (extra points for producing almost the same exact feel of the first image with proper sources. AWESOME!

Author this is a terrific chop, but you are going to have to double check your sources. They seem to be Copyright locked. Some are even download disabled. Make sure when you search for images on FLICKR that you filter them properly so that Modifications can be done with them. It doesn't have to be commercial use but you do have to have permission from the original author in order to use the images.
Even though you can download images at FLICKR that are protected, that doesn't mean you can use them in a PUBLIC contest.

You have the talent to fix this creation in time (the contest is still very active) so please make the proper changes.
I will hold my vote until the image is within the guidelines.

generally, I like this one

suggestions you may consider:
1) create the scene that the ? are surrounding the !... as if saying "who the fxxx are u?" or "where are you from, stranger?"
2) remove the laying "?"
3) do a more "glossy reflection" effect, now it looks like color -glow
4) take care of where the light source is

otherwise, this could be a "photo-stock" piece you can sell

Has potential to be a good image -- first see CMKY's comment -- the edges between the hole and the sufrace are too sharp -- the thickness seems a bit too deep and the walls of the holes do not really look natural -- maybe look of a souce with a hole drilled in wood to use -- might require a total rework of the images as a hole in chip board looks quite different from one in solid wood

The holes would all have different perspectives.
PS: If the square peg is in the center, it wouldn't have a left oriented perspective. it would be straight on with no edges showing. The edges of the square would only be able to touch the outer edge of the circular hole.

Very clever and simple, perfectly on theme!

very nice final result...best of luck

not hard to find the source, but it is well blended.

Simply Amazing!

Hyades84...contest entries are supposed be anonymous :/

Author, your entry looks like it has a few masking issues.. if you post a high resolution version these would be easier to see and you could try to fix them.

creepy but cool lol nicely done

ya it's good i also see some thing like this...
but
very well done ur work..
really it's lokk very easy... but when we start something i do like this it's too hard to do
not only this anything....

but very very nice job

Yep, I like it too! Nicely done, author!
I did something alike on another contest, it's very funny...

yeah this is cool

lol ... Nice work

very good

Super work, reminds me of that movie cats and dogs. What a great imagination you have.

Author........on the basis that the subject in this shot wasn't going anywhere, imo, you could have composed the shot much better than you have. I can see that there are squares in the shot, but there is no artistic content in it.........no depth!. Rethink this shot, and reshoot it, you have time.

That's not creative, that's lazy! Haha! No, I like it though.

Good creativity.

Extra points for being creative = )

Waahahahahahahhahaa
Very funny author...very smart!!!

lol.. good one!

good idea, small spelling mistake

cute

great idea! GL author

Best of luck

nice and cute

Very cute...

Very good idea! Maybe you should get a background for this.

This is great ! Goes to my favs! Great job!