Well The score dropped considerably in last 6 hours from 7.38 to 7.24
By the way I didn't shoot this image keeping the contest in my mind. I was actually experimenting with smoke shots with my new lens 100mm/F2.8 macro in hand. After that I realised this image can work very well for the contest. Nothing special expert editing in this. I cloned out additional smoke in black areas & applied color gradient. The only thing of expert editing helped to get a eye at that place.
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Place: 4 out of 45 Avg (all users): 7.2422 Avg (commenters): 8.5000 Avg (participants): 7.0000 Avg (non-participants): 7.3010 Views since voting: 3233 Views during voting: 390 Votes: 128 Comments: 11 Favorites: 5 (view)