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Submitted: December 16, 2010
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Make:NIKON CORPORATION
Model:NIKON D40
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Date Taken:Aug 14, 2010, 6:14:41 AM
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Hollyby *brandrificus

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Fantasy

"This is my entry for the"NEW YEAR and CHRISTMAS CONTEST" on

"Last Christmas" by Wham [link]

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, You gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance but you still catch my eye
Tell me baby do you recognise me?
Well it's been a year, it doesn't surprise me

(Happy Christmas!) I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying "I Love You" I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now I know you'd fool me again

I always love this song this time of year . It's become a true Christmas clasic , but (sigh) I remember this song from 1984. I wanted to do another winter faerie , but had such a hard time getting the white and blue's right and felt they all looked so dang washed out. So I thought holly would be great christmas time perch for my little faerie friend. I hope you like it. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays , or for the rest of you (who do not celebrate Christmas)...well Happy winter !

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Given 2011-12-23

Holly by *brandrificus "....just makes you dream about Christmas." ( Suggested by `Minato-Kushina and Featured by `WDWParksGal )

Critique by *Great-5 Dec 16, 2010, 10:42:04 AM

She's amazingly beautiful. Probably the prettiest photomanipulation I've seen in a very long time, if not ever. You seem to have alleviated the problem of most photomanipulations (where they look unnatural and pasted together) by somehow smoothing the model and her wings (and even the background) so they look almost like a very high-quality airbrushing rather than a photo.

My only criticism I can think of is that A: the background looks like it's shaded very slightly differently than the girl is, and B: Some of the sparkles look slightly flat, but not really all that flat, and C: her wings are somehow coming out from outside her hair, I don't see how that would be possible (unless the wings were made up hologram-type energy or maybe magic) and also her wings are very slightly off-center, not coming off of her back in the right places. But like I said, it's very subtle and the good far outweighs the bad.

Bottom line, you've done an amazing job here, the model is beautiful and so is your art involving her, and you should be proud.

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