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Thanks for your critique!

George, your technique just keeps getting better and better. Now, what's this thing with the snakes?

Excellent work.

What a great idea!

What an intriguing image! Absolutely wonderful. The compostion, with the orderly billiard ball arrangement of the eggs and the two perfectly positioned snakes. The background is surreal without being blatant. Excellent work!!!

I'm curious as to which part of this is a photo, and which part is not. An interesting image to be sure, but I'm not sure I would qualify this as a photograph, even by the most liberal of definitions.

Excellent work!

I did take a good look even though I have an awful snake phobia...one eye closed...but could see well enough this is a very innovative image.

Are you taking any students, George??!! I've admired your work since the first time I ever went to photo.net!!

I think it would be quite useful to know what part of this was a photo. The balls remind me of something that would be generated by a raytracing program I used to play with on my computer.

I'm a graphics programmer, and I surf this site very often, trying to learn about photography. I don't usually comment pictures because I don't feel I know enough, but this one falls more in my domain. The balls, ground, reflections and "sky" are definitely computer generated (ray-traced). The lines on the eggs is a common model of procedural texture. Hard to tell about the snakes, but whether they are CG or not, to me that's not a photo, sorry...

this may have some impact on people knowing nothing at all about 3d graphix, but if you do, this is a bit cheap (e.g. the default mappings or the edges of the cracked shells)... and the reflection of the snake is horribly wrong...

I gave you a 6/7 on this one and I you deserve every bit of it. Did this start out as a rack of pool balls?

how did you get the models to remain so still? what kind of camera is this?

George has presented this as a "photo," but it seems clear to those of us who know something about computer graphics that this is largely, or possible entirely, computer-generated. So it's hard to understand how to rate it as a "photo" since there has been no explanation of what part of it is photographic. And as computer graphics, it's not very good.

my God your pictures are so original!

Well done, George

Nice pic, good job

Great.

The composition is perfect but I would try

to place the left snake between the "eggs"

such that on one side you will see the head

and on another side you will see part of the body

(ofcourse it is my opinion).

This is spectacular!