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From scooby@pld.com:
Beautiful, and appropriate to the topic.  Great job!

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From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com:
It doesn't look like fire (to me), more like an alien sky.  Whatever it is, I
like the color scheme

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From gregj56590@aol.com:
Nice use of concept "elements." Nice construction of varied objects in your
image, unlike the sloppy CSG in many "four elements" entrants to this contest.



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From ewgr@abaddon.globalnet.co.uk:
RAM is very cheap these days, let us see the full extent of your work for a few
more aussie dollars.

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From bobfranke@halcyon.com:
Talk about a hot spot, wow.  This is a great idea for creating fire, instead of
using halos.  However, I do see a couple of places where the branches are
poking though the fire planes.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Lots of good work here, ambitious and dynamic, but overall a flawed image.
It's a shame that much of the foliage had to be discarded.
Has the big tree already been burned?  Then why does the smaller tree still have
leaves?
I can see the specific tree parts that are sticking out beyond the flames.
Good leaves,  birds, and flame colors.  Nice touch with the sparks and lizard.

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From djconnel@flash.net:
This is an interesting image!!!  The representation of the fire
is quite striking, and it is certainly a good interpretation of the
topic.

However, I find it confusing.  The bird appears in the fire.
The trees with green leaves appear in the fire.  The
healthy-looking grass appears to be in the fire.  Fire is
everywhere, yet the only sign of ill health is the dead
tree.

Still, this is a very striking image...


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From bill@apocalypse.org:
it looks so apealing, despite it's deadliness...

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From wozzeck@club-internet.fr:
Nice work! I really like it, distorted trees, global colours, burning leaves...
I just find it strange that some parts of trees are strictly "beyond" the plane
of fire... the limit is too sharp.

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From 101741.541@compuserve.com:
So that's your new style (since the Toucan) ?  Sort of naive surrealism.. 
I love that !  Good work with background/foreground issues.


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From r@cdsl246.mpls.uswest.net:
surreal.


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From r@cust193.webbernet.net:
Exemplary use of color.  Very dramatic image.  Very good interpretation of the
topic.  The fleeing birds are a very nice touch.  Perhaps because of the
editing for memory constraint, it looks as though vegetation in the area is too
sparse to support such a blaze.  Unlike many fire pictures, you did a credible
job of making the burning objects actually appear to be burning instead of just
sitting inside the flame.  Great work.  This comment by clem@dhol.com.