Wow, this is beautiful Jacqueline! Caught my eye in new images right off the bat today! It looks excellent to me, clouds, wings, flare and all! Nicely done and now it's in my faves! ~Dan

Beautiful creation Jac. Great message it conveys (and I can think of a few people in my life right now, who could use this kind of illumination). Deffinitly a fav image. :o)

*bow*

Very beautiful Jacqueline. You did a great job.

Wonderful work Jacqueline. You have talent lady ! :) I am sure this will be loved by many.

Excellent!!! You have done such a wonderful job on this. Fantastic. <> sandi

Lovely composition. I like the mistiness of the wings. I also really like the fact that this angel looks human - she does not have a vacant smile, her hair isn't terribly tidy and she looks a bit fed up. I find the pose a little at odds with this, but she is an angel, after all. Although I like both the wings and the angel, I'm not sure how well they work together here. The wings don't really look to me as though they belong to her - they don't look like part of her body. (I also want to know how she manages to wear that dress with wings!) But apart from that, I think the disparate elements of this work well together.

- cfr

After reading the above comment I went and looked at the pose again and thought in a way they don't fit the angel.....BUT what I decided was that these may be wings maybe only seen by God! Do we know when we are Entertaining Angles? Good Job on this manip. I like it alot. Reminds me a little of a Ron DiCianni painting. Jodie

really beautiful J ....... gorgeous in every way!! thanx for sharing it :)

Beautiful lmage Jaqueline.This must have taken you ages,to get the end picture.Well done.

Well, I visited the link you gave back to DA and discovered a whole new treasure trove of beautifully done stock photos. Thanks for including that link, even though I understand that's part of the deal :) This is a lovely rendering, and if margali has problems with the practicality of an angel's anatomy and the way she does or does not get dressed, I would like to respectfully submit that when I think of angels, they pretty much fit the way I would picture them, and I don't have to have everything down to a human reality..besides, I think they are mythical creatures anyway, so I can suspend disbelief in their presentation. In my faves, and I hope you are inspired to make more of these types of lovely renders. :)

:)♥PJ

Very pretty AB, I hope I get a set of wings..........maybe they'll cover up my tail ?? LOL

What can I say that hasn't been said already. This is gorgeous Jac! Your manipulation is perfect. I love the pose she is striking, and the clouds and lighting are spot on. Wonderful work!! =DD

what a piece of work you are .. er, .. I mean .. THIS is

RE: .. how the dress fits ... it zips down the front .. I KNOW, because I have unzipped it .. that is why she is currently asking for forgiveness ... my appointment isn't for a couple hours ... wish me luck

my only real critique would be the 'fog' between her face and her hands (drop the strength on your eraser brush and you can soften edges) .... AND ... the blackness of the right corner

A striking image.Nice work.

I love this image & how you're spreading your own wings Jacqueline ! Nice work sweetie. I love the fact that your angel is not tradionally angelic looking, whatever that may be & I love love love the Apophysis wings ! Outstanding ! I actually kinda like the nimbus surrounding your angel, but that's just me. Keith's probably right.

My issue is with the clouds she's kneeling on, for me, they're too broken up & seem kind of "jittery"... for lack of a better term Could you put her on a fluffier type of cloud maybe ? And, umm, tone down the flare a titch. That's about my only real critique hon.

Great job & I hope we see more like this ! <<<hugs>>>

Pleasing in a crafty manner and the technique must be difficult; I can appreciate that

Excellently done, not the screen saver for me but clever and interesting, well done.
Steve

Spiritual and heavenly work Jac!! Awesome apop wings and a grand thought!!

Damn you are good, lol.

Where angels are concerned, I don't dare criticize, lol...seriously, I think it's heavenly...beautiful work, Jacqueline.:Pat.

Had to come back and take this visual offering of yours in ...

At first, I was going to suggest an alternative placement for the emanating light source ... to me it appeared that her plane of sight didn't quite ... quite match the light source.

Not now. I see it now.

Besides being quite beautiful ... I like the somewhat blurred elements as well. Lauren references the 'jitteriness' of the cloud formation she is resting on ... I would respectfully disagree that it is keeping with the overall composition.

The only ... only caveat I have ... and it is minor ... would have been to increase the contrast between the focal subject and the background. Would prefer the back a little darker, so that ... in my mind ... she recedes a bit from being 'front and center' so to speak.

Keith mentions the right ... being too dark? Not sure ... I think what I am referring to is a middle ground between the left and right hand portions in the background to assist with some depth.

This is good Jacqueline. :o)

Angels are not my thing, but your version is exquisitely done. I like that she looks "real" and not like some plaster statue.

Pure and lovely...simply gorgeous work:)

I haven't seen many images that have this incredible beauty. Many thanks for sharing.

I love angels and this one is so beautiful! The lighting you've added and the wings are excellent. Great job!

This is beautiful. Very calming and serene. You did very well to get this together. Well done you!!

Beautiful picture, thanks for sharing.