thanks for the comments. I am suprised that it made it through the challange with out being DQ'ed.. for those of you who that that the woman in the image looks pasted on that is called "outer glow".... it was intentional... I can do a much better job masking in PS than that, but for this image it was what I was going for. Anyway .... my $.02
Nice work. The figure in the lower left adds some humanity to what would otherwise be just an explosion. She seems blatantly pasted in (a bit sloppy), but this actually works for this image.
Hi. I gave you an 8, sorry if this gets DQ'd. The whole debate going on about everything having to be your own photo is bizarre. This is still very clearly your art and I thought it was very effective.