===== From manorton@tcnet.net: That whale needs to eat more. ===== From jerry@hoboes.com: Your diver is probably the least 'stiff' human I've seen so far in this competition. Good job with your simple textures :*) The spotlights really work in this scene as well. I really like underwater images with good surface textures! ===== From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com: A good pic that captures the underwater feeling well. ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Louie Louie ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: I've seen humpback whales and I thought they were not that slender. I think the water is a bit too "foggy", hardly any details of the whale can be seen. Looking at the sun rays falling in from above, the upper side of the whale should be much brighter lit than it is. The same is true for the diver and the fish. ===== From pdolan@jps.net: I'd have given it a greater artistic score without the diver - whale is great ===== From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu: A little washed out, it needs to have the water transparency turned up some. Like the bubbles though! ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Great tropical undersea coloring. And ligthpaths are not so bad, they make the effect very nicely. ===== From Varyk@aol.com: I like the way the stepped air bursts gives a sense of the diver's motion= in a still image. Everything came out great! Everyone mentions caustic= s, I still don't know what they are, but I'm just learning. Any further = diver texturing would have been lost I think. Whale is wonderful! ===== From djohnston@iname.com: Th water seems a little too murky. Maybe I'm wrong, but I envision that water a such a rich color be somewhat clearer than the water you've protrayed. Then agian, that's just my expectation and may not be a true glimpse of reality. :) One thing I like is the way you did the bubbles...the way a stream has bunches and then just a couple bubbles on their own. Very nice. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Good work. ===== From chipr@niestu.com: Nicely done. Some stiffness, but overall good effort. ===== From r@dc2-modem1283.dial.xs4all.nl: Looks very nice... waves are a bit strange though. Notable for lighting