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From agage@csee.usf.edu:
Nice texture on the basin.

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From nels1678@tc.umn.edu:
It's a nice image, though I just don't think you had enough of a relation to
water, the idea was good, but it's a scene of a church, and the little bit of
water you provide doesn't really have enough to pull it through.. 
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From talious@sprynet.com:
Excellent image, however depending on the kind of atmosphere, 
and if you have media interaction on the candles on. The
candle flame is interacting with the atmosphere.

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From witoslaw@kki.net.pl:
Not much water here...

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From manorton@tcnet.net:
Very nice use of atmosphere.  The texture on the coloumns could use a little
tweaking but rather nice image.

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From jerry@hoboes.com:
Your "local church" looks kind of like Westminster Cathedral to me :*)
Where's the purple light coming from outside? Good eye for detail; the
tapestries are a bit flat.
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From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com:
A beautiful pic, especially the colored rays of light.  the pattern of the
stained
glass is too mathamatical.  I like the level of detail.

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From jasondinger@hotmail.com:
 a stunning picture! beautiful in fact! only detractor is that there is so
little
"water" in the scene it seems a little off topic. otherwise great!


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From gregj56590@aol.com:
The most appropiate use of water!!
Excellent wood and stone construction.
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From amason@cs.uct.ac.za:
lighting could be more dramatic; dark areas seem to light. Don't be afraid
to use shadows. like the random placement of the bibles.
composition is a tad unbalanced.
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From justin@scpmcs.org:
Wow. I'm floored. Wow.

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From vogelap@email.uc.edu:
This is a great image -- I like the detail. Everything just looks "RIGHT". Only
the most tangetal connection to the competition topic, though..

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From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de:
I'm left to wonder what lights the parts of the scene that are obscured from
the light sources. A lower ambient light setting would probably have donw a lot
of good to the image. The candle flames cannot be identified as being the
sources of the light, they should be much brighter and have a slight glow.

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From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu:
Good idea, nice lighting, but the fount seems textured out of scale, and the
wood in the pews sems painted on. You need a subtle bump_map under it to bring
out the wood. The walls and window are quite well done, though.

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From jaime@ctav.es:
Wow! What an antmosphere! I'm not practicant, but I think I can expend some
hours contemplating such a church. very nice architect job. Stones look very
realist. Lighting is also very accurate, specially ambient one. The glass
cast a beatiful light/shadow playing, touchin nicely the altar. And, of course,
the concepet is original. Hard to find something to critize... ...hmmm...
...perhaps the hanging flags, which are very nice, are not so "real" as the
rest of the scene, but it's all what I can invent. Well, no doubt, you're at
the top this round!

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Supreme effort, but it doesn't quite hit the mark.  Perhaps if you had placed
the sun a bit lower, and illuminated the entire top of the water basin... As it
is, the focus of the image is clearly the window, not the water.  Or if you
actually showed the baptism in progress...
Great detail, textures, atmosphere.

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From chipr@niestu.com:
Very good detail, colors.  A bit sterile, and the shadows are a little too
"busy" to make the scene peaceful.  Excellent effort overall.


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From r@spider-th084.proxy.aol.com:
This is a strangely emotive approach to the theme, treating  the symbolic
attributes of the water in a church where the transcendent attributes of all
things come to mind
Notable for originality