very nice mood

AHHHHHHHHH... after so many BLUE entries its nice to see an new Mood and tone..thank you author.. smooch

Three different light sources...castle would look better without the mist in front, to be outlined against the cloud background.

dracula's swan! good luck!

W.O.W..............speechless...........

Very well done.

wasn't there a similar entry before? with a lady in front? anyway, great job i love it!

This is a dramatic pic and a good idea, but I have to agree with CMYK on the light sources

very dramatic setting; the castle is huge

great looking work.. but u got to work on CMYK's comment.. gl

Thanks to all for comments. CMYK46 thanks for your advice. Flip ocean to match lighting and remove cloud in front from castle.

great entry... only thing i don't care for is the swan... seems tacked on for some reason... maybe it is it's position in the image... not sure. fantastic work over all! GL!

Nice dramatic image, I like the colors. Maaaybe you can add a bit of blur for the castle's edges, so that the light will look even more overwhelming. Good luck!

now thats what im talking about

stunning work author love the colours through this image. goodluck.

very nice entry, good colors

Great image...

nice. good luck!

Nice work love the atmosphere!

congrats

Congratulations for 1st Nasir

congrats well deserved win

Congrats! Way to go! Great entry!

Congrats...again

Congrats!

Lovely work.............. Good imagination....... G/L Author.

very nice mood

wonderful work.. your SBS is EXHAUSTING in a very good way..

lovely work!

Very nice effect.

thieves!

real nice..i love it

great concept

On the one hand I like the clean look, on the other hand I'm not sure about the spikey waves. The gull looks very nice there, that's for sure. Good luck!

so pretty

good idea

very creative image i love the water effect. goodluck

Very Nice....Good Luck

I love it! It is like a painting!

Its pretty good

The water reminds me of feathers now, BUT- it's a really cool image and nicely composed with the addition of the birds.

Beautiful!

Good!!

very nice

congrats

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats!

Congrats! Way to go! Great entry!

Congratulations.

Congrats! very beautiful

WOW. just throw that big ole ship at me and scare me half to death... LOL.. it's a beautiful image..(Modified, didn't see title LOL) I just love the feel and brightness of it.. good luck

very cool!

nice mood

great image

great mood!

awesome =]

Very Nice...... Good job Author.

Beautiful work!! Suggestions: Looking at the high res, I notice that the main cut out of the ship seems rather harsh. You might try a very slight blur on all the edges to take away from this harshness. In contrast, where the ship meets the water at the lower, center point of the image, I think that it could benefit from a harsher cut as the ship just kind of fades into the water. These are very minute things, though. Fantastic job and good luck!!

Cool Good Luck

Very Creative use of the source image Good Luck

fine

good work

Great!

I like this, very good.

very good I loveeeeeee that ship

The boat image has alot of holes in the riging. The lighthouse is cool and krisp.

beautiful

Pretty cool boat! Image is nice too. I might have given the lighthouse some blur since it pretty far away and the area around the horizon is also a bit more blurry. Apart from that, give a bit more waves around the boat's front. There is already one splash there and that fits great, but behind that splash the boat fades a bit away in the water. With another wave you could hide that. Good luck!

Thanks Waz , i have changed it a bit.

Congratulations for 3rd

Congrats!

Congrats! Way to go! Great entry!

Congratulations.

Congrats!

aaah.. beautiful work... gl

Very nice, love the water on the floor spilling thru the frame looks great!

beautiful

wow.. feel like I'm on a ride at Disney..definately an E TICKET

EDIT: Wow Author... your creativity has no boundaries does it? you just go super nova all the time LOL

Look great! Good job!

nice job

Great job... REally really great!

Very cool.

Amazing.

great multidimentional work! good luck!

Looks great! The statue had a reflection in step 3...you should bring it back, it's too faint here. Slightly blur her sharp edges, too...

Very pleasing composition! Nice work!

Looks great imo

like the way the water is done -- nice overall image

I think it would be neat if you shrunk the water picture, so you can see the sky and the waves. Other than that it is a very nice piece. GL.

coool!!!

Tx for all your comments...will do changes in tha am

Absolutely wonderful!!

nice work

very creative. water reminds me of Magritte

good work

very beautiful.........................work.................

Great imagination.

Great Job

wonderful idea good luck

nice work author

Very nice, love the water on the floor spilling thru the frame looks great,awesome/gl

Great stuff, keep it up

Beautiful!- a favourite

Not sure what it is that I really like about this but Man I really like this!! Maybe it's the contrasts or something...Love it Good Luck

nice

Love the overall feel. Suggestions: In the high res, your ships are quite blurry compared to the rest of the image. I'm not sure what you can do without changing you sources images (obviously not preferable), but they are noticably out of focus. Also, the front ship is partially transparent where it meets the waves. This is okay for the waves in front, but looks a bit peculiar for the waves behind. Good job and good luck!!

very nice entry

heaven is great! good luck!

I really love the picture though in reallity open ocean never breaks in such a neat parrallel to the horizon, that ship would be in a billion bits on the shore... though it only effects us peeps that live near/on the ocean..(My two cents because of the dedication to realism in the image) GREAT WORK

Over all I like this entry. In high res the wtaer is very sharp, while the people are blurry...maybe a slight gaussian to the water layer to even things out?

Go colompus

IMHO you would have been better off using a real stormy sky. This looks like just what it is: a bunch of brush stamps. Good color work on the water.

Great Work Author........Good Luck.

The light on the big ship seems to be coming from the right, the source photo has a left-side light source, and the bright spot in your clouds suggests possibly a third light source. I think this would be more dramatic if the big ship's sails weren't so bright.

Good job, clean up where the boat and the waves meet they are kind of off. Love the color.

good work with ship! but clouds definitely not good... sorry... GL

hail the sail

looks very nice

Nice image, the background with other ships is pretty convincing! Good luck!

Looks much better!! Great job!!

nice feel

Nice! The waves around the ship could be better, now it looks a bit as the ship is being dropped.

you did very well, keep going