The black stripes show no glass edge delineation. Other than that, it's an interesting concept and a good use of the contest source.

nice use of contest source author
like it
good luck

Beautiful and artistic! Very well done author!

Congrats!!

I've seen a few of these driftwood horses, they are amazing works of art! Very nice photo.

Amazing!! Well done

Cool find! They both look the same wow!

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Nice Congrats

This is a very original image. I like the simplicity of it, but the top half of the egg shell looks out of place hanging in the air. I'd put it on the ground, but that's just me.

Thanks MossyB, I though about that but the shadows are wrong, so will remove it I think ... and crop accordingly.

Better. The image is more powerful without it.

I like your idea, one never knows what an egg holds until it opens And a moneytree is always handy!

One advise though: the money bills all are in the same angle, putting them in different perspectives would make it more natural. Damn I have 1 advise more (sorry): the shadow of the tree is to dark and sharp compared to the shadow of the egg, you might want to make it more transparent and put a Gaussian blur filter over it.

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OOps.. I accidentallz deleted mz comment.. Anyway.. I made a mistake in my comment.. I wanted to tell u that u had to soften up the shadow at the head. And at the tail, it had less opacity, so you could have put a gentle increase in opacity of shadow at its tail.. But i screwed up in the punctuation marks.. Apologies..

In the change u made, i feel u have overdone the opacity change at the head.. its better if u do not do any change in opacity.. just make the shadow softer in the head from the previous image..

EDIT: the opacity looks great to me .. like nator and blindscientist pointed out, the shadow is now a bit too soft .. i know i am annoying u now.. try to match the shadow softness with that of the chair.. i leave it to your judgement good luck..

hsbee - thinks this is what you were suggesting!

I love this idea! My only input would be to make the shadows a bit sharper, like the shadow of the chair. Also (nit pick alert), based on the angle of the light/shadow from the corner of the towel, I would expect to see a small shadow from the top of his head on the sand/rocks. Nicely done though author. Good luck.

nice work

very very very well done.. good luck author

Funny! I think chilli's shadow can be less blurry (look at the chair's shadow). GL!

I really really like this one author.... super duper job!

A very good entry, great Idea and execution, well done and good luck

This is so cool...funny work,nice mood and good execution...well done author

HAHA

Nice execution of the idea......Good job Author and Good Luck.

And congrats for another second place!

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Lovely

This is very nice...good luck

very nice. I would mute the bees and flowers some (brightness adjustment) they seem to be placed on there, where it needs to blend.

Congrats for your second place, Angeldust!

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