for me, this is genius...!

Wow that's lot of work. Good luck!

Very very clever, and shows your talents well!

Beautiful and what a lovely choice for this time of year! Amazing amount of work ... the pine needles alone ...whew! It make me tired just looking at them. Well done Author!

Author you have got to be one of the most meticulous artists! This is amazing. How many layers did you end up with?? You have me curious!

That is a beautiful arrangement for the holidays! You did a great job again. Good luck author.

Beautiful work, author! Did you do flower arrangements in your previous life?

Jadedink, I merged as often as possible esp with the pine needles, but tried to keep all the flowers and leaves on individual layers so that I could manipulate and change their positions, I probably had 100 layers when I finally merged layers for the filters. I know that my Adobe program kept shutting down. I guess it was complaining about all the layers it had to process !!!!!

Pearlie,
Yes, I've done my share of flower arranging! Don't know about my former life, though! lol

Lovley, only you can make such nice flower arrangement out of bricks and a hose, = )

Fantastic work author...its so visible how much work u invest in this piece...Perfect...best of luck

Congrats I'd love your flower arrangements in my house

Thanks so much all those who voted for my entry!! It was a great surprise with some other really great entries. Love ya'll.

Congratulations for a well deserved win!

congrats!!

Congrats !

Great pic!

Strange and disturbing ... but I am sure that is what you were going for!!! Mission accomplished ...Great work. Definitely got a reaction from me, and that is what art should do

I decided to go against spamming the comments with "BRILLIANT!" just to keep my account.. but this is BRILLIANT!!!!

Its quite impressive. I toyed around with this source for a while and ran out of time with it, but this is fabulous. I'm seconding matteos "brilliant" on this one, and good luck to you author.

Fabulous job author...Idea is great.mood perfect and execution perfect...well done

Very good work.

congrats!

Congrats for second! Sorry you were beaten by that abomination.

Congrats !

This one is so CBR'd, I can't make out the source image at all..

YOU are kidding, right mossy??
OMG.
the tires is part of teh source. the front of the sprayer.
the bumper is teh turn on valve on the source.
the ground the car is sitting on is from the brick wall.
the body of the car is the actual nozzle of the sprayer. notice the "soaker" printing??

i admit there needs some work done to blending of things..but CBR? not really. i've seen worse. ALOT worse.

@ mossy,...CBR ? yes..maybe something wrong with your eyes...hehehe...and jadedink's eyes are sharper than yours...I hope your eyes have no problem to read jadedink's comment,...@ jadedink, thanks a lot...

The car image is nicely done, and realistic. The rest is flat & cartoony, and IMO doesn't fit. Still, good work here.

YOU ARE SILLY AUTHOR!!! ... in a very great way LOL.. awesome

True, there are some issues with varying degrees of sharpness, but overall, I love the whimsy and design of this, very clever use of source, author! Great tree and buildings, would make a wonderful children's book illustration.

Fantastic work author...whole image is great compilation of different styles and i see great uniqueness in that...hat down for u author...well done

congratulation!

Very smart.

If there are shadows on the wall for objects behind the lamp, why doesn't the lamp have a shadow?

Thank you Bob.

Lighting looks great

Lovely work!

very nice work author...great colors and cool perspective...best of luck

very cool!!!

Excellent, love the warmth. Great colour choice for the overall image. Beautifully put together!

amazing! cought my eye out of the bunch!

Thank you for comments.

Great work man! I don't get what exactly are his weapons , but he looks realistic.

Great construction author...his pose is fantastic...i presume that this weapons are some kind of boomerangs...