===== From castlewrks@aol.com: Light gives the whole picture a FLAT view... no sharp shadows or contrasts. Color choices are questionable. ===== From agage@mines.edu: The cloud thingies in back are a little wierd... ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Clouds look like dust balls; otherwise, a well done scene. ===== From Martin.Magnusson.7121@student.uu.se: I think you should have placed the clouds more horizontally. The wayt they are now they look more like some sort of smoke. ===== From dormammu@erols.com: Very good picture, even taking into account that you couldn't work on it much. Had you had enough time to make this look top grade, it probably woulda won. ===== From ethelm@bigfoot.com: Why your plate became a polygon? Did you make the plate with a cylinder or did you rotate an object with straight sides, for example a box or wireframe? If a rotated straight side object, there should have been more of them. If you used the cylinder, we have no idea why it came out with straight sides. View through the wine glass was too ambitious, otherwise not bad. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: The glass is very realistic looking. Some of the colors in the background are a little too vivid for me. ===== From djconnel@flash.net: With a bit more work, this one could have been a real winner!!! As you note, there are some flaws which could easily be addressed with iteration, but the view through the glass is a very nice touch. ===== From r@207.232.193.166: If the background was more realistic, this would be THE candidate for 1st. Very nice Notable for composition, textures, modelling, originality ===== From r@dial-up30.webbernet.net: Very nice sky and fountain. Very artistic background. I like the idea of shooting through the glass. If the plate is patches, you may have run into a bad conversion. If it is csg, perhaps it is a bounding box problem. Just guesses. This comment by clem@dhol.com.