Well, I was convinced that cactus live in every desert, but no way xD

They come from America. Only one specie lives Africa but it's not the kind depicted here.

thanks! and here in Indonesia I though that cactus originated from africa.. my whole life is a lie..

thank you :'D

Congrats, solid win.  I was pretty sure that you'll take a prize.

It was sure win ;p

Congratulations for your award, you deserve it :D
(By the way, Baobabs live in Africa and Cactus are from America, but it doesn't really matter here, isn't it?)

Baobombastic!

thank you very much :'D I just somehow want to add the cacti there, and good that I find there're people that love it :3

thank you for your vote! :D yeah, I want to improve it after the challenge's voting is done.

omg elk, I really love your works *_* thx for comment here, it's make my day feel brighter XD well, I never play R.O.S.E, I search it a bit and yeah, maybe it have similar feel :3

Speaking as someone who lives among saguaros I can say that Baobabs do not grow here, but in Africa. I love that you mixed them anyway, and the choice in colors and texture makes this piece a jewel.

The colour use and contrast is excellent in this piece. I like the details of the bark, cacti and rock. I don't feel the lines of the composition entirely. It could use a dark foreground layer and some AA on some edges, but overall the piece is impressive. It has my vote.

somehow reminds me of R.O.S.E online

u have my thanks :D

thank you :D whoa, I didn't even check about the cacti origin, I will pay attention to it next time *_*

Great textures and colors!

that's very good, great work, i really like the style and detail in this, does not seem hurried atall.. 

but besserwisser in me wants to make a minor comment about the cacti in the picture, those type of cacti are not indiginous plants of either Africa, Madagascar or Australia and even if they were baobabs normally grow near watersources

I think you're right, If I still can update it I want to improve it at least *_* but I will note it for my next piece, thanks a lot!

Beautiful, but the cropped branches really hurt the composition

thanks :D

Great texture, colors and aerial perspective! 

Though I'm not sure about cropped branches are good or not...  

thank you m(_ _)m I'm happy, this is also still a study though :'D but please feel free to study it =w=b

gonna look for it XD

This is extremely impressive. I'm going to have to study this one closely.

I am so going to find an excuse to put a starry night sky in an entry for something one day though :P

lol, you post your entry first, so it will be looks like I'd copied XD well I also glad there are no other starry night baobab entry :3 thank you :D

omg! I was literally going to do a starry night sky boabab entry so I'm really lucky I went with a different idea or it'd look like I'd copied XD better done than I would have managed though awesome stuff :D