Very atmospheric.. really nice work author

awesome... i always liked your work.... fav

awesome entry.. well done author..

please upload the sbs so that we can learn few things from your process..

Very cool image composition is spot on… do watch out for white lines around the pirate they can be distracting,Plus there are areas of the rigging that are fragmented you may want to add them back in.......

Great! It seems an illustration of a book... and I agree with iquraishi about the sbs...

..well done author.

this is awesome!

Quite impressive!! GL

yesss ! impressive !

Great work author.

very cool...good luck

Looks like a winner! GL!

Congrats on the first place!

And I was right Well done and congrats.

Congrats this is awesome

Congrats for 1st

congrats for the first

Congrats, I predicted your win easily

congrats!

Aaaaand congrats again for another first place!

Nice effort! Maybe a brownish color (not so dark) for the snake to make it pop up from the cactus...

cool...

creative!

This is very good. I like the use of textures , Just a suggestion: Erase the part of texture which is on the sea, your image will look much better if the texture is present only in the sky. GL !

EDIT : Considering elficho's comment, I would say that its up to you to decide

i disagree. it gives a nice grungy feel to the whole image.

Keep the texture through out, looks like an old picture, well done.

I really like this work. Since the texture and final antique coloring are so important to your image, it might be good to add how you achieved them to your SBS. GL

Great looking image, bit light on the how much of the source you used IMO. good outcome from all the images G/L

I like this a lot it’s a superb idea and the textures really do make the image but and theres always a but.......
What you have at the moment ( texture wise) is a little to overwhelming maybe try a texture with less marks.Or flip the one you have no harm in trying

Thank you for your comments everyone.. Lamantine, i very rarely work with textures, and i only use them to blend images together to help match colours. If i only applied it to the sky it would defeat the point of having it in the first place.
Ironcow, in my eyes the source is there to be used however the author wants, the idea came when i zoomed into the high res picture and saw the shape of the source.
Warlock, thanks for the comment, i lowered the opacity on the texture layer (it's the best i could do short of replacing the texture altogether)

I got ya. Fits the image well and looks dead sexy. Was just my opinion I hate using outside images myself but think I might mess around mixing some up . G/L author

Better than this it's impossible! Except if it's another work of yours, of course...

I agree with erikuri, well done author

this is a beautiful picture. Just try to sharpen more the rocks. GL!

Nice chop good luck too you

Thanks to everyone!

Siderismaris, i sharpened the rocks

Love it good luck

man, this pic is awesome!

Amazing image and very cleverly used texture

what does "k" stand for and one is capital

"K" stands for kilometers, but it's just another "change what the signs say" entry...

you only added the text...

This made me laugh. I like the reflections too...but the reflection has more detail showing in its tailfin than the actual fish. What happened to the top of the tailfin?

EDIT: Understood author! Makes sense...really funny image!

Happy you got a giggle out of this. The full length of the fish is half out of the water. That was my intent to make it look like a tall tale. About the clearer details of the tail under water, well... there are less ripples on the water.