haha that's funny

Congrats!!

congratulations

Congrats!!

Congrats...nice work.

Congrat's !

Congrats!

very hard work

Amazing work..love the color tones.

Amazing Artwork... I like it...

SBS would be good.

SbS would favor you. Looks very good, great work.

Please remove signature. Entries are supposed to be anonymous.

Wonderful job.

Congrats for 2nd!

Congrats!!

Great job here, nicely done author! Good luck

Pretty hard work!..my fav!
GL author

There was some thought that went into this, putting all of those parts together. I really like the details that you've added, too, from the exhaust in the back to the tiny hairs on the legs. Excellent job!

LOL, I was going to say, HEY that's a Potato Beetle LOL (The Irish contest got my head going) Great job

Do you think just a tiny bit of burn along the lower edge of the shell on the beetle might help with the depth ?(or maybe just some contrast to pull out the shadows NOT A LOT, it's just in the thumbnail the white area of the shell looked very flat. (Your high res is wonderful, but I'm just thinking of the overall feel, and the white area is a bit stark IMHO)

Great job anyway GOOD LUCK!!!

really a great piece of innovation in chopping

Motion blur should only be behind the ship, not in front.

Congrats well done

Congrats!!

Nice, even though the head doesn't fit in the image, the shadows on it are wrong and not very well blended.

great

great

Really nice work, author!

This makes me think of the band Mushroomhead. It looks like one of the members of the band. They all wear masks and one is a pig. Good luck, I really like the "surrealness" ( < if that's a word) of this image, Good work author and good luck.

great work

Great job, reminds me of Pink Floyd by the approach and some elements.

Not too sure the background works, but the idea is good.

Very original!

Congrats, Yoguy. Well blended and very strange. I like it!

Congrats author!

Congratulations!

A pair for me, please

Ha-ha-ha, super cool

lmao @ ripsaw :P nice clean entry, I think a fish in the front would have given u more dof and for me it would add to the title fish island, . nice chop gl

i like dead fish, they are easier to cook!

Ah, don't worry author! I just think it is , the viewer wants you to make it how THEY would have made it, without realizing that YOU are the artist here. Maybe they should make their own version so they can be happy? :P

Anyways, this is very interesting, and high marks from me for such imagination!

all things being said if you like it that is all that matters.
Failed is a harsh word.
I like this chop and good luck too you Author.

I love when people are fighting for art ...go go go author

"If you have to explain it, you've failed at visually communicating it..." One upside down fish will not convey your fantasy world, it just looks like a dead fish, because you have given the viewer nothing to convey that your fish world is any different from the real world. Everything else is right side up, except for one fish. If you filled the image with dozens of upside down fish, the viewer would generally assume that they were all dead and floating "belly up."

Perhaps if you placed the tree top beneath the castle, so that it was upside down, or flipped your background so the water was on top, and the clouds on the bottom, it would help create a more cohesive "upside down" environment, but as is, it just does not come across as you are envisioning it.

Just my opinion, but I think the fish on the left would look better in the foreground as it would help the visual depth of the piece... It is titled Fish Island so it would be nice to see an entire fish... again, just my opinion, but if the fish are upside down, people will think they are dead; art shouldn't need a explanation for it to make sense.
Imagine this piece hanging in a gallery with no place for a "swimming upside down" comment; people are going to think they are dead and that the island is some sort of fish afterlife.

Nicely put together piece regardless of my opinion.

great source find, and blending..gud luck

very well composed.

Too bad the fish in the back died and went "belly up," this looks like a cool place for fish to live!

very cool image high score

Fun image...GL author!