===== From chris@bluelectrode.com: I'm not sure whether it's the concept or the skill applied that makes me love this image. Pure genious. Beautiful in every aspect. The lighting is just enough to highlight the features of the buildings. And with POV...not that I thought such a beautiful and realistic image couldn't be done. I can only imagine what it could look like rendered at 3200x2400. I now have a new level of skill and proficency to shoot for. Incredible work. One of my top 10 and all 20s in my book. A Definitive winner. ===== From clintona@ibm.net: This image is great! The image size submitted does not do this scene justice. I would have liked to see an 600*800 rotated on its side. ===== From trioker@wanadoo.fr: Very impressive work. You're a professional. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: my head hurts when I think about all the time that must have gone into adding all that detail. ===== From YaelParis@operamail.com: Very nice lightning in this picture... The building walls are a bit to repetitive but I don't blame you for that, I'm not able to do such a good job ;0) ===== From rbyman@rockies.net: As always an admirable effort by Monsieur Tran ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Whew doggee! 20-20-20! ===== From ianshumsky@hotmail.com: A truely great image. Its a pity you don't enter into the IRTC more... ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: A faultless picture - only a sense of deja vu with the concept prevented a perfect score. ===== From ameede@madmac.com: Wow, some Italian Renaissance, some Escher, excellent work. I want to know how long it took you to actually create the scene (from conception, through its final product). I find the work socially significant as well. ameede@madmac.com ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: Yes ! And again another of these fantastic ones ... why is there so many good entries in this round ? You're not making the judges' task easy lads ! ;-)) But I'm so happy browsing such fantastic submissions. Gilles is another well know quality artist in the POV scene, isn't he ? They should really form a group of professionals these few who spoil the game away from beginners ... but keep doing it though I'm not telling you off. I would really miss it if you were not there. Who am I going to degrade from his/her high rank to put this one instead ? The choice does not let itself known. I'll probably go for a share in the first place. There's life, there's mood, there's ligth, there's skill, craft, gift, pleasure, expression, mistery, depth. There is an idea that motion is not far away but it does not quite show on the picture, this looks very still. Almost sterile in fact if it were not for the small greeney patch in the middle with its two disturbing animals however peaceful they may look like. As for the IRTC rules the FAQ clearly shows that you can submit a 600x800 if rotated into a 800x600 and ask the spectator to rotate the image back ... but of course that's asking for the spectator to act ... it may be too much for some and it may be asking for trouble. Yet I think an entry as good as this one would have been worth the trouble and the risk - what do you loose anyway ? Your name is pretty well known within the IRTC arena and broader POV scene. OK, now I know the end result for the votes (mine of course) : three of you get an equal total of point well above the others (for me anyway) and you are one of them. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: WHat I can say? Thanks for entering, Gilles! Altough I've seen parts of this scene and you admit it is part of a current topic, it is a superb scene. Very nice idea and composition, depth is amazing. Fabulous! ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: Gilles, l'IRTC, c'est pour les humains! Mais c'est quand meme une occasion (rare) de critiquer une de tes images. Il y a quelques incoh_rences dans les _clairages, notamment vers l'escalier en haut _ droite. Et puis on situe assez mal le sujet, qui devient un d_tail alors que le d_cor semble etre le sujet principal. Pour le reste, les couleurs, la perspective, le d_tail, la finition... c'est in_galable! Petite question: tu as toujours une pr_cision stupefiante dans tes d_tails: avec quel niveau d'anti-alias travailles-tu? ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: Technical - wow! Full Marks! Artistic - an impressive presentation on a time honoured subject, Full Marks! Theme - garden, definitely it is (a bit on the gothic side construction wise but very high marks for original interpetation of theme ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: This is a lovely picture - good composition, moody lighting, intricate modelling, and a clever approach to the topic. I really would have liked to see this at 800x600 pixels - you can always submit an image "sideways" and request that viewers rotate it (it's within the rules). But going on this, there's not much I can suggest to improve this - except maybe zooming in just a little closer to the centre so we can see the detail there more easily. ===== From file: quite complex, i like the lighting Notable for textures, lighting, modelling