very unique take on the contest -- like this very much fine fine job

Great idea, well done!

Very different. I like it. Might have been nice to catch a little furniture on the "up" one too for symmetry. But a way cool shot

really different, and absolutely fantastic, well done. I rotated it 180 degrees so I could see it that way too, great.

AWESOME! It makes your mind have to think for a second if you don't realize it is a vertical panorama all the way around.

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

Very impressive ! Good luck author !

Absolutely brilliant idea... well done!

Breathtaking ! That's thinking out of the box.

Very cool indeed!

Congrats for your first place, Creser!

Congratulations, wonderful shot.

wow... great... congrates mate.. this is my third fav in a row this week which has won the contest... wow!!! great... congrates again... enjoy

Many thanks to everybody! Have a nice week!!!

well deserved author an amazing image

very very well
awesome
nice author

I really like this, just a shame you cant see it all on screen at once. Great shot though, GL

wow, awesome capture, well done author!

This is cool!! Too bad the towers weren't closer to each other.

Amazing ... really amazing

wow

WOW

Good Photography sense

Wow, truly amazing, what a great idea. My head is spinning = )

Awesome.. how did you take this shot?

yeah wow!!

It's a 180° panoramic image made of 11 shots taken without tripod in a beautiful September day of the past year.

wow

I think you beat this one! Great and powerful,

congrats .... great pic

Thank you all!!!

Nice 1! Very competitive entry. GL!

I hate to be the one to bring it up... but since this isn't a just single shot ("It's a 180° panoramic image made of 11 shots" as per author)... is it legal? I hope so cuz its a great shot. I am just asking for clarification. Still getting a high vote from me!

this is NOT photoshopped..this is one of those continuous photos... my two cents... LET IT STAY... it's absolutely brilliant... it's perfectly obvious what the author did.. and did it brilliantly... awesome

Oh yeah.. I can see the entire picture in high res if I don't enlarge it.. that's amazing too by the way.. good luck author

This HAS to be photoshopped (for stitching purposes). There is no camera I know of that combines 11 shots (per author) into one. I have a point & shoot thats does panoramas with 3 shots (all in camera) but this is wasn't done that way.

Please don't misunderstand.... I gave this a high score and hope it stays... I just want clarification from the author and mods. If this is okay then it opens up the door for more types of pics.... panoramas, HDR, etc.

I think that stitching is not the same as photoshopping (made on camera or not)... it is the same as having an ultra-wide (and ultra expensive) lens. If stitching is not allowed, cutting should be the same. These operation doesn't alter the nature of the shot (like cloning and hue manipulation), but just improve it. But this is my opinion, and obviously I am not objective with myself! Decide serenely!!!

I am with you on this.... trust me. I have to agree that stitching is not the same as what can be done in photoshop but it is still an image manipulation. It is not the same as having an ultra wide angle lens however, simply due to the fact that lens wasn't used. With this logic I could make a "fake tilt-shift" photo in photoshop and say, "its the same as using an expensive tilt-shift lens". Cutting is different than stiching simply because you are taking away and not adding. By stitching you in fact did "alter the nature of the shot" by adding more shots to the original.

Okay..... in summary... I LIKE THE SHOT AND IT SHOULD STAY!!! I just wanted clarification because I am a huge fan of HDR and have always had to defend some of my shots. In my opinion HDR is the same idea... making a photo with light and dark areas better by bringing the dynamic range up more to what our eyes can see and the camera can't

I'm with captgeo, this is image manipulation but I think it should be allowed to stay as well as HDR shots. The rule that includes photo stitching and HDR should be done away with, it isn't changing the picture or adding to it, it's simply combining several images, a practice that is widely accepted in the photo world an is allowed on every other photo site out there.

This is great... i am glad this one is the winner... pretty much says "stitching is fine". Which leads to other things being "fine".

Congrats on placing. It was definitely one of the best.

WOO HOO

Congrats for your first place, Creser!

Congrats, this really is quite amazing

Epic shot. Great job and congratulations!

absolutely Brilliant... Congrats..

Fantastic mood & detail here!
What r you shooting with author?

With my little sons: D700 and 105 VR Micro

this is a lovely shot, nicely framed, the reflection is superb. the only thing that lets it down in my opinion, is the focus.........it is a little oof...

Ade, you're right when I uploaded the hires I've chossen the first shot that was oof... now I've uploaded the right one. Thanks!

Is this picture in a zoo or reptile cage?

stunning

Very Nice Capture.

That's much better Author!

impressive!

one question author..........where was this shot, it seems very still!!

Absolutely amazing

This DOES look creepy!

Great shot

Damn, this is definitely something to compete with. Very, very nice! GL!

It looks like an indoor shot and not a forest or woods make. But dont let a simple thing like that stop the WOW factor.

@Ade & @Mek: as well as being good photographers, you are also good investigators!

Who cares where it was taken. This shot is superb! Probably my favorite. You know what they say, if it quacks like a duck...

it was just a question...........out of curiosity!

So glad to see this placed so high. Congrats!

Congrats for your second place!

Love the reflections, well done!

Fan tabuous ... well done

really wonderfull !

lovely

Gorgeous!

excellent crisp pano

Such beautiful reflections, you did a nice job on this.

Gorgeous colours and reflections.

Congrats for your second place, Creser!

superb work...............the black and white sets the mood for this.......

Excellent work! Perfect for this contest

This is a great image, i am not expert but i would say print worthy.

Top marks.

now this is a good creative use of low shutter speed....awesome work

Could you share with us the technical part of this wonderful shot author...?Help us improve...share your knowledge with us!!.

really nice

Yes I think in this case an SBS would help but I think I know how you did this. Just used a long exposure, a low lighting source and help two positions for a few seconds each?

@everybody: thanks so much for your appreciation! @kara: the shot is made as jaws said, the only thing to add is to ask the model to stay in the starting and final pose a little more so that they are more evident. You could even use an another light source (light a flash) shooting at the beginning and the and of the movement.

great

Thank you sooo much author....

very nicely done, wonderful work and great capture

Congrats for your second place, Creser!