omg very funny,one of the best entries

Agrees with Jen. Good luck to you!

never thought i'd say this, but thanks for giving us the finger man. Top chop. GL

Great image!!

it wasn't my intention to give people the finger. but im glad people like it thanks.

Funny & nicely done, except index finger & pinky are the same size...you should have used the thumb for the crossed leg.

PLAYFUL and fun.. great JOB!!!

must win IMO..and goooooooood philosophy .!.

great imagination!!!

heeeee hee heee...love it!!!!!!!!

Great job

Creative one.......Good Job .......Good Luck Author.

Congrats for your first place, Jaescoe!

Congrantulations....well done.

HHAHA LOVE

Congrats on 1st

Congrats

Hearty congrats....

Mood wise, this is great...however cohesively it would not hurt with better lighting blends to tie it together. The values are lacking on the snake. Everywhere the light hits on the hand it should also hit on the snake. Think about the light that would hit on the corresponding curves.

I really like this, i think it's a wonderful and powerful image. I would personally follow Annabat's advice, but even if you don;t you have a great image here. Good luck

nice one

Gotta agree with Anna on this one...

I like the idea..is a very good image!

this would be better if you gave it a light source from the top after flattening the image

I actually thought of that Rick but I just left the image as you see it.

And also congrats for a great second place, Nator!

Nice work....congrantulations on 2nd

Congratulations!! I'm glad this came second... Fantastic entry!! Great job

Congrats

Congratulation!!!

Wow, like it. GL

real nice... maybe the back hands can use some gaussian blur?

KingRafox, the back hand is surface blured (sorry, maybe I mistaken in term, my photoshop in not in english). In any case, thank you for your comment

reflections are very well done -- nice image

Well done

I wish you could have uploaded a higher res, but it still looks very well done in this resolution. So GL!

Nice work with the reflection. GL

niceee

Lovely image.. great reflections and a nice atmosphere. Good luck!

Beautifully done. Looks realistic

Super work........Good Luck Author.

Thanks to everybody

Congrats for your third place, Eramono!

Congrats

Very nice! Very realistic!

my vote is for ur work, no doubt its great entry... but there is no positive creativity... as far as i thnk

Nice entry and great work if your own brushes were created by yourself

fantastic work but I would have the hand the same color as the concrete base.

agrees with Nator

Thanks for the comments and suggestions..I definitely agree with that change

fantastic!!

WOW!! Really amazing!

Congrats

Really good job. The blurred background really adds depth, I think. In High Res it looks like something is wrong with the thumbnail and the edges of the Ivy are too sharp. Still. I really like this, especially the ripples in the water. GL.

Thank you very much Chaplain! I blurred the contour of the ivy very slightly, the strands connecting each leaf together are very thin, and any more blurring would result in a total loss of the stems, so i did what i could. Thank you very much for the comment

this is very cool pic well done

Stunning work

is this gaussian blur? try experimenting with lens blur. nice job overall

Yes it's gaussian blur, although the result i got using lens blur definitely looks more realistic. I'll try it out on future entries, thanks Elficho, and thank you all for your great comments

very nice!

congrats Matteo!

Congrats