Thanks for playing guys! Hope you all had as much fun playing as I did watching from the sidelines!
Here are my initial comments
jrcastillo - i really enjoyed seeing you recover the colours on the tulips. i did however find the repeated tall poppy in the background a little distracting
atupdate - i love seeing the many lives and times of Godzilla. had a great giggle over it and loved that you managed to place him in the right focus area and have it line up with some of the photographers
todd - great processing. you revived the colours, changed the tone and cloned out all the distracting stuff
d1no - really enjoyed your placement of the photographers throughout the tulips. very entertaining.
dmfw - i like that you tried something different. however the background (trees) was a bit too intense for me
kunju - i'm a sucker for starbursts and love how you managed to incorporate it into this shot. also enjoyed the tonal change
astonm - love that you went for a different crop and gave a nod to popular culture
So... time for the winners.
Honourable mention (because I couldn't settle on just three...
) - d1no
This shot made me look and look again. I really liked how you thought outside of the box. But those double poppies in the background drove me batty.
3rd - Kunju
I really enjoyed this colour interpretation and the detail in the trees and tulips
2nd - atupdate
Have to give you second. Godzilla just made me laugh!
and the winner is....
Todd - I love the mysterious feel you've given this shot, with no distracting double poppies in the back