A really good effort - but I wanted to see some motion on the egg, just the vague kind of blur a slower shutter would have given. And also, the whites have blatted out, and the horizon not being horizontal bothers me - in fact, all the background bothers me. A pity, as that would have made it my favourite of the week by far. Think you gave yourself a massive challenge, and it nearly worked! Good stuff
A simple, but efffective idea. The lighting has really shown up the wrinkles in the hand which seems to detract from the central idea of the photograph I thought.