wonderful card!!! great job

Congratulations for 2nd and third my friend......!

cute one! congrats Cornelia for 2nd and 3rd!

This is very sweet. A nice image.

This would make a great Christmas card! Really well done!

Sweet - well done.

Very cute, good luck author

very nice -- like the chop reflection is very nice

Wonderful work of Art! You did a great job!

really sweet, love it!

Congrats on 2nd, nice work

congrats...

Yup, it's dark, alright...
Considering this IS a competition site, nothing but "woo hoo, it's WONDERFUL!" comments sure wouldn't help people improve their skills much, now would it? Only those not wanting to improve would be discouraged by any criticism...

Even the elves knew that there's always room for improvement.

Me present this for you: This site has rules & guidelines that you agreed to follow when you joined. There are other sites if you don't like them.

HA.., THAT S IMAGE DESCRIPTION.., N SOMEONE VE TOUCHED BY ME POOR ART..?.., IT S STRANGE ISN T IT..?.., HOW THE POOR ART LIKE MINE CAN TOUCH SOMEONE..?.., N IT S ME EXPRESSION DESCRIPTION OF THE IMAGE.., N IT S FREE TO EXPRESS THE IMAGE ISN IT..?...

CRITICISM S WELCOME.., DISCOURAGE S NOT WELCOME.., EVEN FOR THE POOR ART LIKE MINE.., HA.., CRITICISM S NOT DISCOURAGE.., THIS ART CONTEST SITE S NOT FOR DISCOURAGE OR TAKE OTHERS ART DOWN...

HA.., ME ALWAYS FOLLOW THE RULES N GUIDELINES.., ME ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MODS INSTRUCTIONS IF ME AM WRONG... HA.., ME NEVER BREAK THE RULES N GUIDELINES.., HA.., ME LIKE THIS SITE VERY MUCH AS THERE R MANY PROFESSIONALS/ MASTERS ME CAN LEARN FROM THEM TO IMPROVE ME POOR ART...

WOO HOO! Reminds me of the Pumpkin decorations we put up around Halloween, good luck author

I don't really get what you're mad about:
- comments discouraging authors ?
-stock sites that want you to pay? ( like those bastards from photoexpress who no longer give free stocks to new users)
- this site's guidelines ?
- the grammar of the English language ? ( you should see French grammar!)

Anyways, good luck with your protest, i would however take all these issues one by one:
one poor entry for comments , one entry for stock and so on.

nice!!

Don't stand there gawking! as if you've never seen the hand of God holding an Apple before!

(Monty Python quote modified).. now who want's to be part of my little plan of marching Up and Down the square...

Sorry author, I know it's a serious image, but that quote just popped in my head when I saw this.. giggle snort

Good Luck.. I added the apple LOL

Awesome work!! :o

Very nice work author...Lighting is handled perfectly...well done

very good image!

I like the monochrome sweep to color and back again. Nice touch. Great image!

Thank you for the comments guys

Congratulations!!! Have a cookie!

note: cookie is purely hypothetical.

Congrats!!

Do not quite understand the idea, but good luck!

Ummmmmm..... Good luck

Very interesting