Jet,

Chiming in here .. I think your work is quite creative and I would encourage you to continue it. I think the photograph can be only one aspect of the final image, and this proves it. There's post processing clean, creative additions, idea, .. and so on.

That said, I like the shot, but feel that her tan lines sort of bring it back down to Earth. I see that you basically eliminated them in the next post, but there is way too much distortion / visual evidence of digital work for my tastes .. it looks smeared/blurred and there are a lot of artifacts in the bright areas of the clouds. Can't have that ... as the catwoman used to say, it needs to be purr-fect, or at least very close to it. I would also drop the contrast because it's making the shot look a tad cartoonish.

The final post you did has potential -it sort of reminds me of a post or mural on a kid's room wall, minus the nudity of course (!). But there's too much contrast and she looks like it was copied and pasted into another shot. I am sure that others may disagree, but I think it can't be that obvious.

Anyway - despite the criticisms, I think they're very creative and a nice diversion from normal images.

G