What a comeback, author!

Wow... very nice!

Very imaginative piece of art author... Love it!

Good idea & execution; great choice of sources. GL author.

Nice to see your work. Beautiful! I can see the effort and good work you put into it. Good luck.

Terrific work

fun chop, I'd consider bringing the swing/girl/wings unit more into the image (Lowering so it forms an equilateral triangle with the lower subjects) It's a great panel, but I find my eyes doing a bit of a Yo-Yo movement trying to look at the whole image at once. (Though that could be the effect you wanted)

I work with panels in display work all the time, and this looks like it could use 4 more panels to create an entire story. (Like those Chinese art screens made of 5 panels that intersect) Whoops, just thinking out loud good luck, great work

wow..very nice..

Absolutely wonderful. This art of putting an emotional feeling into a conceptual theme is a real talent. Wonderful work.

congrats, stunning work

Congrats.

Congrats Elke

Herzlichen Glückwunsch Elke, sehr wunderbare Arbeit!

congrats

very well done! i love it too much....thanks for making my original image looks so professional and dreamy looking...suits my taste..going to download and set as desktop wallpaper and show off to my friend about your product....

fantastico

I think most of us can identify with those feelings

Dat's a LOT of sources Maybe have the little PXLeyes guy peeking out of each window in a different position as a way to pull it all together, not necessary, but with such a LONG image, it would create a sense of unity. AWESOME WORK.. and a lot of it. When viewing it, it becomes several different images, which is great, I'm just thinking if it was published as a panel etc.. or in a full side of a newspaper. The paint swash with the white stars works great, just thinking a tiny bit more of a punch with the little pxl guy. Just me. AWESOME no matter what.

Nice blending with lot of sources. Great idea.

Good one.., love it

That's cool and creative idea to use your showcase your stuff. Well done.

love this one

Amazing blending and beautiful image

Fourth.... not to bad... congrats.

Congrats.. LOTS OF WORK!

Congrats Elke

Congrats

A great thought and a great entry... Congrats!

This is a GREAT piece..wonderfuly done author!

A real work of art!

Very nice to see your work again, really surrealistic, great!!

Great work

Very distinctive image... Lovely work as always, author

good stuff... your barbed wire in the middle looks to be floating though compared to the others..

Great concept and work, author! cool sculptures you found, interesting story with those - fantastic extraction, too!

love the mood. very nice!

I agree with all! Very awesome and surreal!!! GL!

Thank you all very much for your nice comments!

@Westfall: Thanks! Somehow I moved that barbed wire layer to the wrong position. It's fixed now

Nicely done! Animals add a lot to the image and nice sharp colours. Good luck!

Good work.

Amazing work author...Perfect idea and great execution...well done

good luck

Congrats

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

oh yeah.. and congrats

Congratulations for 1st, great pic.

Congrats Elke, awesome work

Congrats for the 1st . . . .

Congrats! for 1st place and great blending of images

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

congrats!

well done.. congrats...

oh WOW, so creative. High res looks stunning!

Congratulations Elke!
Test comment on entry in finished contest.

that a good idea nice pic

great

nice ideea

excelent idea!! i really like it, just two nit picks, everything has great lighting except the sunflowers and seagull, which lighting doesn't match the rest. The other suggestion i have, is that the visual zone that atracts more in an image is the upper right quadrant, and right now it's totally empty, that somehow gives the feeling like something is missing, and that's accented by the fact that the four finger tips and the right side of the tree completes a rectangle, i suggest you to place the seagull in the mid space between the 2 middle finger tips and the top of image

hope i made myself clear, if there's anything you'd like to ask , don't doubt to contact me...

Thanks a lot for that huge and helpful comment, Mike! I'll change it, as soon as possible

I love the feel of this pic, author...you did a great job! (Just one small thing: if you flip the seagull it will match your light source). Good luck!

I like this pic, really great work, I too have a slight nitpik, it is about the blurred edge below the thumb, before the wrist. Should this area be blurred? My eye seems to go straight to it.

Great use of the source!Great chop!

that looks awsome

Nice work.. This looks familiar for some reason??

I'm going to take you to
My special place
It's a place no amount of hurt and anger
Can deface
I put things back together there
It all falls right in place--
In my special space
My special place
~~My Secret Place by Joni Mitchell

Thank you all very very much for your nice comments I flipped the bird, changed it's position and tried to work on the sunflowers. Thanks Mike and CMYK
@Richie: No, that shouldn't be blurred... seems like I was a little bit too enthusiastic with my eraser
@animmax: I don't know why it looks familiar to you, but I swear, that I didn't steal anything. Ask my mom... She was suffering for 2 hours, because I asked her all the time, what I can add

Good Job.

Very nice...

Very clever. She just needs some music up there to make life complete.

I think its art

very very beautiful, good luck

Very nice, looks very nice

Nice one GL!

Author: I hope you didn't take my comment that you were stealing?? I just said it looked familiar to me? I cannot place where or why.. No accusations involved.. Honest..

wonderful idea author everything was well put together.

Very Nice idea Author.......G/L.

Great idea and nice work

awesome!!

Thanks again for all your nice comments and favs
@animmax: I just wanted to make that clear I know, that you didn't meant it like that

great entry - the idea is wonderful and the execution almost perfect... I have only few suggestions: if the hand is made by grass, shouldn't be the edges more fluffy? And the girl seams to have a slight shadow around her, and she cannot drop in reality that shadow unless the sky is a piece of paper... but, overall, it's a wonderful entry, good luck

nice image.... good job author

@Hymerion: Thank you for your suggestions I already tried to make the edges more fluffy, but it looked so bad and I wasn't satisfied with the result at all, so I decided to leave it this way. Concerning the girl: I'm not really sure what you mean, I don't see a shadow around her?!?

great idea!!!

I like it very much well done!

very neatly done! nice

very good image

Nice outcome, author . I do think Hymerion has some good advices about the grass shape for the edges of the hand. It doesnt have to be all around, but what you can try is juuuuust use a bit of smudge tool to make a suggestion that there's more than a sharp edge. And I also see some kinda aureol around the girl, or at least on the right side. Doesnt have to be bad for the entry though . Good luck!

very nice work, different

great work

This is nice...

So great! Lovely picture : )) Super good job author.

Very good work, well done. I really like the work you ahve done here, nice one

good image, reminds me of a idea i had in my mind for another contest in the past i havent posted. good idea, also the main idea! I love trees good job!

very nice job author ... i love your image GL

Thank you all so much for your nice comments

Congrats! Well done!

Congrats Lelaina very nice image

Gratuliert, lelaina!! Up to the next one!

Congratulations for 1st, well done and well deserved.

Congrats, nice work

Congrats

congrats for 1st

Congrats!!

Congraaaats

you made it??? congrats, mit drücker!!!

congrats!

quite the beautiful construction.. and the overall composition is absolutely brilliiant.. accurate intensity progression of the blur is awesome.. good work here author

I like the depth you've created. Nice work.

wow good job wel thougt out!!!

i like this image

woah, nice dude!!! love surrealism, this really captures that! great work!

looks fantastic author... i love these images goodluck.

very nice mood

Looks absolutely fantastic. Good luck!

very nice!

Original great work

Thank you all very much for your nice comments

you did a good job transforming the balloon ears into hearts

Great imagination & execution! Maybe the finger shadows could be more defined, but otherwise well made.

you know how to make an image real... very good job...

very surrealistic! great image

Great work on this love the colours super stuff!

excellent idea!!

really great image! great imagination

A big "Thank you" to all of you for your nice comments

gratulation

grats! Awesome work.

congrats!

congrats again!!

Congrats!!

Congratulations for 2nd

congrats!