Very cool! Great use of the source image, and wonderful shading!! Just a thought, the blurriness of the background suggests that it is far away, and your shadow tells us that it is very close, so your losing depth. Also there would have to be a light coming from where the viewer is for the shadow to be there...so long story short I would drop the shadow all together, and maybe blur the background a bit more, you could also desaturate the background a bit to make everything else pop! But either way this is a great entry. good luck

....sorry to bother you further, but just in case that was confusing at all, I was just talking about the shadow of the tree and the sticks

Thank you Robart. Desaturated and blurred more the background. Shadows lowered.

Wonderfully creative use of a difficult source. My only nit pick is the ground, which looks too flat and face on. You should skew it, so that it angles back to give this a stronger sense of realism and depth. Very nice work!

Mossy: I made the changes, skewed the ground, and the image looks better, sorry I was not able to load the changes. I really appreciate your suggestion.

this is cool work author i like it

Awesome still life