My immediate reaction is 'less is more.' The star with the spiral around it is particularly distracting. The moon has a white outline and I'm disturbed by its crispness against the blurry planet (or is that the result of the planet's atmosphere?) A greater color contrast between the moon and planet would be nice IMO.

Great title, really cool space scene, fabulous SBS! I kind of like the spirally thing, don't find it distracting at all, in fact my eye is drawn to it. The gaseous clouds are a nice touch. Well done, author.

like a scene from Chaining the Lady!!! SAVE THE METAL BOWLING BALL that doubles as a Body Guard! (Love Piers Anthony) hehehe

Fantastic scene author, title is top notch...Usage of the lens flare is perfect...well done

Great SBS, nice dynamic composition, the sun looks really good.

It looks 3D to me. Great job

Very beautiful Love the border around it and the texture to the image Best of Luck

Very nice!

great job, love the finishing...good luck

this is something i'd hang up in my living room!

SAW WHEAT!!!

Good work!

I like this...the muted colors work well with the surface texture.

pixelkid has said it very well. It seems simple but very effective.Great entry

Perfect and really resembles and old canvas

good job

The frame is really distracting...pretty good blend of the other images...
Edit: Looks better to me now...

I agree (dare I say) with cmk about the frame. Other then that great image.

I agree with CMYK too. The first thing you notice is the frame and not your really great image. So I would really suggest to get rid of it or to use one, that is not that big. The blending is very good indeed! But maybe you could try to adjust the colour of the water around the hippo. It looks like a green circle around the hippo and I think, that it could look even better, if the area around the hippo looks more like the colour from the little river. Good luck!

Thanx 4 all ur comments. I got rid of the frame...

Beautiful composition and great blending, although the hippo bothers me. It seems he is more of a distraction than an addition to this beautiful piece. The reflection of the tree should be larger. Good luck!

gud composition andlooking good

I also think this hippo is a distraction...the first thing i did was checked in HR to make sure i wasn't seeing it incorrectly, and then questioning the hippos presence in the environment, not to mention the green halo around it...otherwise this is a beautiful image.

There is no green halo or something around the animal. I dont know why you think that its a halo or some1 says the water is really green around him..Its just the original shadow from the original source which i kept it during the manipulation ..thats it

author, there is green round the hippo.....it is not our imagination, and, imo it doesn't do this picture any justice. The image would have as much impact, if not more, without the hippo in it at all!!

Man I didn't even SEE the hippo at first, but after reading the comments, it made me wonder "What is a hippo doing doing in this fall scene in Ohio?" You really should take the hippo out. Also the blend of the yellow tree with the one to the side is not a smooth blend. That would be a good change for you to make. I must say that I DO like the texture you put over the image, it looks really good!

I m not going to remove the hippo!! I mean its a bit bizaarre that u always r thinking everything in real..This is photoshop, its all about art, forms, manipulations...Its not about the animals which are living in ohio or bla bla! I can put a dino or rhino etc..I can put what i want to...I dont understand what you think when you really look at a Salvador Dali painting or an Elsa Schiaparelli Dress??? Just tell me..I would appreciate any kind of your comments about my images and I do correct them when i have time, but pls no comments abt the imagination!

Extraordinary!

Actually you cna really see that it's from 2 pictures.. cause the heaven behind the autumn tree doesnt match the one from the other pic.. And its much more yellow. otherwise really cool

nice, don't know what to think about the hippo though.

I agree with the hippo comments about him not quite fitting but this is one of the best I've seen as far as how you put it all together and made it look like a painting so well done!

Very very nice,i like this one so much....

Nice blend...imaginative use of sources...good job!

COOL A HIPPO.mine is missing ,( this is not mine thou , he is pink),!!!!!! weird, yes! belongs geographically NO! creates a discussion point YOU BET! apart from a pretty scene what would be the focus of this image?Is it not a mark of a true artist if ones art work can create conversations?

beautiful image

Congratulations for 2nd

YEA!!! and the HIPPOS have it..... second place well done

Congrats for your second place, Velkanx!

congrats!

congrats