er11a, i would like to offer you a sincere suggestion, and that is to take a moment and step back from post processing. what was it that you wanted to achieve with the image, and what was it that you felt the need to process it in this way?
this looks rather similar to your fire alarm picture, where you took a pic, and really tweaked the curves or ran a filter or something.
the rotting pumpkin concept is cool, but i too think that the processing takes away from the picture.
keep shooting. :thumbup: