LOL! I'm from Wisconsin but was raised in Mn. This is funny stuff!

Oops! Missed citing the football by Penny Bubar http://www.sxc.hu/photo/375745

Extra votes for concept and humour

Congrats Dan

Congrats Dan , that's cute

Congrats! Great idea, great colors =)

Congrats!!

Congrats for the nice composition! Love it!

Foreground shadow should be parallel to the one to the right of it. The shadow of the ship should rotate counter clockwise. Good job on the rest.

nice work

Congrats, well done

congrats, nice find for the ship. good sbs, too.

Congratulations!

congrats

Congrats!!

Excellent good luck

really nice idea, and good performance

well done job... good luck author..

Fantastic idea and very very good work.Maybe u have to work a bit more on the letters and the edge of the poster.Any way,this is great work...good luck author

wow! great use of the sources...i like this one...

good one

clever and creative idea

Yes, agree with Nator. Would be nice with a bit of an "old" look. Very creative otherwise.

I toned down the intensity of the poster's colors to make it look more like it's been out in the sun for a while.

Yeah that's nice now. Good work!

Great idea

and one minute thing.. can you blur the shadow of the paper boat a little.. its kinda too sharp..

Yep, I agree with iquraishi; comparing to the bar shadow, paper boat shadow is a bit sharp... just blur it slightly. It's a very realistic work, I like it. And pls, upload it in high res!

yes please upload the high res... we would love to look such a cool work in better resolution and details..

Really nice entry, very well done. GL

The hi-res was too huge. I started with the hi-res version of the 'meter guard' in the lower right corner and then made a canvas more than nine times bigger. Maybe there's a way to make a 'higher res'-but-not-quite-hi-res version [other than using 'Save for Web & Devices' which apparently is limited in the size of original pic it can handle], but I think it's too late to upload it in any event. [BTW I did blur the paper-boat shadow slightly, but apparently not enough. Blending into the existing post shadow was an issue. Distractions prevented me from trying harder before the contest ended.]

For future refference, if you image is too high for high res, make it a little smaller. But this works. GL!

Congrats

Congrats for your first place, Dan!

Congrats, really nice work

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Congrats! Very nice image. Very creative. Definately deservent of 1st.

Congrats! for 1st place

congrats