Angry Bird
by MaryO

Comment:
I'll guess you artificially created shallow depth of field. I'm probably wrong.

Stars and Stripes
by Paul

Comment:
Almost looks like a skeleton. I'm not sure this will so well with the collective, but I find it to be pretty cool looking and a creative edit.

Freya
by boocowski

Comment:
Lovely scene and a beautiful woman, but anyone who gobbles up birds out of the air scares me.

The edge of the water seems to end too neatly and I can see some evidence of it around her upper right arm (I didn't spot that until after looking at it for a few minutes, the 3 second voters will probably miss it completely). So I think pasting in the forest background was your rule breaking.

The Bike Rack
by franktheyank

Comment:
I think you cloned out a bike that was in the rack, or a person standing there. There is a thicker shadow about halfway up on the left.

One man and the sun
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
I think you may have created the fogginess in the foreground. Not sure this looks like a scene that would be naturally foggy.

some of the parts
by 2mccs

Comment:
Ewww. My mind is coming up with all sorts of scenarios of this is illustrating.

pepperazzi
by tnun

Comment:
Now that's cool looking!

Winter hike
by clickodak

Comment:
Hmmm, I'm guessing the rule you broke was removing major elements. I think there was originally a dead body in the scene that you removed.

away
by mitalapo

Comment:
There's a story here that I'm not getting. I'm going to guess that there was originally an alien spaceship in the background and you cloned it out because it was a major distracting element.

route
by NiallOTuama

Comment:
I knew this wouldn't do well with the collective opinion, but I loved it and gave it a 9. The voting stats tell me this was one of those "strong appeal for a narrow crowd" entries.