Very beautiful. Great work.

this is fantastic, i love the lighting and although i am not as critical as some i would say it is almost flawless

Great lighting...nicely done

Strangely enough, this works for me. Nice blending and lighting...

Best in show... great choice of sky.

Congrats! Way to go!

Congrats for your first place!

thank you everyone for their votes and views, it makes you work harder every day to give the best in every creation. will continue to do my best every day. this is my first time I've won first place, Thanks!!

Congrats, really well done

GREAT EFFECT...NICE WORK

yea very cool ;D gl

Very good use of source, a great end result!

Good idea....nicely executed

This needs a guy diving off the balcony at about the 58th floor and it would be perfect!

Very creative!

superb!well done author

I love the way this pic moves with the scroll wheel, great job.

Nice...:P thought it wud never end

Congrats! Way to go!

Congrats for your second place!

This image is fantastic: however, the lightsource hits the lower stones differently from how it hits the hotel, which makes it look off. Also you should make the concrete in the hotel slightly darker and more blue to match the stone in the masonry below it.

i think you did a greaqt job.. i have a few suggestions. Try to match the water from the pool and the waterfall a little better, it goes from bright to dark very quickly. I persoanlly think this is a good enough image and doesn;t need the model in the picture, and i would also suggest that you remove the metal handle. Great job though, a very nice image

Thanks for the comments! my initial thought witht the water is that there is a cliff there and it would be casting a shadow on that area so it would be a hard light. I guess the way that i cropped it you really cant tell that

Please post source links. The perspective on the masonry right above the falls is off, but it's an interesting image. I agree with Ponti that the metal railing looks out of place now...

It seems like the perspective is off, but it isn't all the stone buildings are 1 image.

Author, I see that now in your SBS...

The color matches much better now. Awesome job!

That is one LARGE small woman. Scale of woman seems off to me, but I like the composition a lot.

I based the persons scale of of the bar in the water

Congrats!

Congrats for your third place!

very nice mood.

Very nice darkening and blending

Nice work with the darkening and shadows

Great job with the HDR effect! It really adds a cool feel to the image.

Suggestion: From looking at your high res, I think you need to do a little more work on the cloud reflection. First, they are a little too sharp, so you might try filtering them to get the desired distortion effect. Second, they are in front of the building's reflection, which obviously isn't the case when you look at the main image above. You should erase or mask out the clouds in front of the building. Good work and good luck, author!!

nice done! very creative

Can you please be more detailed in your SBS? You did a fantastic job but I have no clue how you distorted the pieces, put them together, or created the background.

Very nice composition. Good luck!

Pretty cool

Interesting use of source here.