===== From jerry@hoboes.com: Nice scene. Not sure about the moon--isn't it flying awfully low? Beautiful deck. ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Nice level of contrast for a 'night' scene. ===== From tlyons@gnn.com: too dark to see the water ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: Don't expect anyone to be familiar with a RayDream shader called "4 elements". This makes the sentence very confusing. The water texture still is not perfect, the texture is too regular and far too strong. Instead of setting the raytracer's recursion depth to ridiculously high values (where would you ever see more then 5th-order reflections?), more antialiasing would have done the image a lot better. There are jagged edges almost everywhere. The candle flame, as the predominant light source in the foreground has to be _much_ brighter. As it is, it looks like a plastic flame providing no illumniation. The wine in the glass is not transparent, but has a matte, opaque surface. ===== From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu: Beautiful image with a major flaw...the reflections in the lake are all wrong...there should be a strong reflection coming from the direction of the moon, instead it's coming from the right somewhere. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Very nice realism, specially on the table zone. Beatiful lighting, texturing and modelling work. Greetings to your wife! ===== From Varyk@aol.com: Oh! This is such a nice image! I wish that the moon (bright enough to c= ast shadows on the table) was the source of the lovely reflections on the= water (that seem to be coming from off-camera to the right somewhere.) ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: It's a shame that "water" is only a background element in an otherwise fine scene.