===== From xeo@home.com: looks good, though you could you use a few elements on the water, and the straw should be have a little less diameter. ===== From jerry@hoboes.com: Very pleasing image. The photograph and the note are perfectly flat, though, and being this close to them it is too obvious. Good job with the black and white lighting. ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: A 20 for theme. Tells a great story. Table, glass, photo are excellent. Frequency of water waves seems wrong. Do people in your country write to the very edge of the paper (no margin?). ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: The upper half of the glass also refracts as if it were solid. Taka a look at a real glass and see that it hardly distorts objects behind it in the middle. The way the plank texture bends around the table corners (And making a table from planks with such wide grooves in the first place) does not look very realistic. The sea suffers from severe aliasing artifacts. ===== From pdolan@jps.net: I like the B/W, but the water needs work ===== From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu: Sea waves seem too straight. ===== From Varyk@aol.com: Great! I only would have done two things differently: no had the ripples= squared-on to the viewpoint, and had dark circles where the waterdrops h= ad soaked into the paper instead of beading like on the shinier surfaces.= A striking image. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: More like "grey" . ===== From chipr@niestu.com: Nice moody image, good use of monochrome.