===== From chris@bluelectrode.com: Between the poor jpg conversion, loose theme connection, and the fact that the whole scene consists of a single image map, no, you can not expect to get anything higher than a 1 in my book. Taking advantage of loopholes won't gain you much respect anywhere. I hope your animation submission is better. And please, if you don't plan on actually raytracing solid geometry, or at least applying _some_ effort, don't submit anything at all. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: It looks pretty blurry and "artificaty". Had you modelled the scene, I would have liked it a lot more. I've been to this garden... ===== From gregj56590@aol.com: Violates the rules. ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: One of those "Get that entry in at all costs." things huh!? ===== From ianshumsky@hotmail.com: A really great idea, but a pity you didn't have time to do your image. ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: bah, humbug. ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: Not a good idea to put a picture. Who owns the official copyright to that picture ? did you ask for permission to use ? Well if you cannot submit entries to two competitions then just do one of them please. Your loosing your time, mine and a bit of your reputation. I don't mean to sound too harsh now, but I want to be firm. ===== From karl@pemail.net: If you must do something as basic as this then you could at least have used a higher resolution source image - this just looks a blurry mess and the artifacts from the original file are clearly visible. ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: Technical - just like you said in your .txt file Artistic - the photographer had an eye for balance and placement of objects within the picture Theme - original intrepretation of the theme ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: At least you could have used a decently scanned photo...