Good blend...I'm glad I don't have these in my garden!

Very realistic looking. Well done!

good clean blend.. hehehe. great job

Oh man, what a nasty little critter this would be! Excellent blend and imagination.

Very nice creature GL

I really really loved it!
The blend is perfect and the colors are amazing?
Creativity? do I have to mention it?

Interesting and scary creature!

Amazing blend I love this creature

Magnificent creature, nice pet for me !

Super cool creature author...Great blend and very dramatic look...Well done man...Best of luck...

Great work!! Beautiful composition!! Good blend and maginific imagination!!

Congratulations!!

Super clean work author. Instant fav. Good luck

Excellent clean blends and work!

Thank you all for the feed back...learning from the best !!!

Congrats!! Great job!!

Congrats, derdevil!

Wow, looks so real, very well done = )

Woo a Hoo Hoo Hoo great job

Wow...another great one...GL author!

Well done ,nice lighting and rain on the car is very good.-- G.L.

awww i feel so sorry for that poor wet car LMAO great chop the only thing that kinda rly catches my eye and i wonder a bit about is the lamp and theres a lil black outlne on the front part of the car near the umbrella , BUT, high marks I can learn a thing or 2,3, 4, 5, 6 and more maybe from a chop like this THe rain effect, the mood, the car it self, just amazing

Nice job on the rain

Somehow i forgot to credit authors in the description panel
Thanks to :
MarcelTH from sxc.hu for cloud stock
juliaf from sxc.hu for mouth stock
GiniMiniGi ftom sxc.hu fro street lamp stock
hsxg from DA for rainy road stock
laszlo-616 from DA for red umbrella stock
exfordy from flickr for car stock

Great Work..

And I like the Name of the pic..

CONGRATS!!!

Congrats, this is awesome

Congrats on the best of a good bunch!

Grats! its an aweseom work and i dont understand it scored not higher in the final score

Looks good in Low-res, it's the most realistic image in this competition. I just 2 suggestions for you: (1) when you make the water splash, you can refer to the real one in the source that you used. The splash on the sea is blurred, not as clear as the one you made. From that distance, we almost can't see that splashes. (2) the composition: actually lower halve of the image has nothing to do, there is no information there. If the tail of the monster is seen on the bottom left of the image and you crop more tightly (the right side), your composition will be better.
Good luck, author!

Looks good, and has an awesome BG source/mood. That tail is a bit strange, but you ran out of time, so it's understandable.

excellent work author............ definately my favourite in this contest I love the colours throughout the pic, its blended really well.

Definitely a winner! Composition and mood are both perfect

Congratulations! Great entry

congrats pal

Congrats

Congrats awesome work

Thank you ALL for votes, comments and faves !!!

Congrats on first Place Win

Good treatment of a subject that's been done badly so many times.

I like this image a lot except theres hardly or none play with lights or shades on the building on the front/big floating isle while that captures ur attention the first. It makes it look a little flat. Perhaps you can liven it up somehow that building. I will put it on my favs anyway because its a very nice image. well done.

this is really well done..i see you put a lot off effort into this and so many source images merged together....the only think i'd try to work on or get rid of instead is that lower right statue of angels. or add some soft cloud brush over it or burr it a bit to give a DOF view.

other than this, one of my top piks

good luck

I like the variation of island bottoms! Perhaps if you darken a few of the highlights of the further island bottoms...it will vary it even more! Nice work, author!

This must have taken some time, the results show it.
That one balloon that's exactly centered behind that tower is a distraction from an otherwise great piece of work.

thanks for the feedback i agree, some tweaks here and there will improve the image, but i ran out of time... actually i started with this some 20-24 hours before the deadline, so i didn't had time for some adjustments..well, i have to be happy with what i got

and here is small WIP ...

http://s6.postimage.org/q0de4nt6p/fantasy_wip.gif

Great job and win !!

Congrats!!

Congrats !

Congrats, very nice work

Congrats

Congrats!

great job and well deserved win...congrats

Fine job, good lighting...love the teeth!
(Hats too!)

Congrats, good work!

Congrats terrific work, sooo cute

Congrats!!

Congrats!! Lovely job!