Wow, that's a cool poem, and you did really well depicting its message!

Amazing.. fantastic work with the colours. Wow.

Very good scene, great blending and color balance!

Your technique is hard to hide I look forward to seeing your work each week author....You never disappoint Best of Luck

nice feel, like the lion, ...and others!

wonderfull mood.., good luck author...

Beautiful creation! Great talent, author!

i like it !!! awsome

BEAUTIFUL.........

Thank you all for the wonderful comments! And the favs ... I was not sure if this image would come across right.

Lovely ethereal quality! Fine work!

Spooky atmosphere and lovely pastel colors

Congrats for your second place, Arca!

Congrats, very beautiful piece

Congrats...

Congrats!! Lovely as always!

Clever idea. Well done!

nice

Very good entry!

Very creative and curious idea.

Very creative, but the butterflies/moths look flat, not three-dimensional. Some Burn Tool on the bodies and refinement of the shadows falling on the background (different parts of the moth would be different distances from the background and thus would cast a slightly different shadow) would help. A stick pin through each moth might add to the realism.

Hi, everyone!¨Thanks for the comments!

@ DanLundberg

I didn't want to touch the original texture much but, you're right, some things should be improved. I uploaded it and decided to see what the others would have to say . I appreciate your suggestions and, yes, burn tool just might be the best solution for the "fake" inner shadows. i will try to improve that part!

And as for the pins- sorry, i just couldn't! ))) I made the pins and in the end decided not to use them, I couldn't stab the poor creatures!

Great idea author,i like your different approach to this contest...well done

thanks, erathion!

I made some changes! DanLundberg, thanks again for the suggestions- burn tool really did do the trick (I don't think I use it nearly as often as I should ). I did my best to achieve a more 3D effect and I think it looks better. I also used both burn and dodge tool to add the same effect to the frame. Then i added some smudges to the background and to the tags- i thought it should be older!

Anyway, I appreciate your inputs! Thanks!

i like it !!!!

I think there's some more depth now. BTW if you create a selection beforehand, that constrains where your burning occurs so you can easily get hard lines between burned and unburned areas..

Congrats...this is really really cool work...

good work

now this really looks like a fossil from my anthropology textbook

Wonderful image! Very well done. It looks like some of the actual fossils I've found before.

Thanks for comments, Actually before creating this entry, I have visited many fossil web site gallery to see how fossil on rock will look, secondly finding proper sources and finally try and error with some blending layer options and get this result which is very closer to real.

Nice job! It shows that some research improves the result! I like the barely visible antennas from the moth. Good luck!

very nice work.

awesome