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From digitalburn@totalise.co.uk:
Nice sky, pity about the water.



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From elvish_archer@mailcity.com:
I like the proportion and the color too, but the ripple and the wave......
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From darwallace@earthlink.net:
Check out Michael Hough's water tutorial.  Your water is all right.  A second
texture layer on the lower hull for lichen, barnicles would have helped.
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From pbourke@swin.edu.au:
Good use of texture and I particularly like the sun on the
bottom of the clouds.

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From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt:
That sea look like liquid metal...

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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:
Nice horizon lighting.  Horizon a bit too harsh... needed to see the ship... too
dark.... needed an aged look to it.
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From tony@j4tb.com:
Your title reminds me of the game Civilization. Your water doesn't look right.
There is too much variance in the texture chosen.
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From whitey@telefragged.com:
too dark, too brown.

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From gregj56590@aol.com:
I respect the overal "bronze color scheme," but it just doesn't look right on
the water.
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From a.swan@ucl.ac.uk:
Nice clouds
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From frepe@ifm.liu.se:
I really like the color-tone in this image.

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From bbowen@cswnet.com:
Strange grainy effect. I'm guessing the result of media + jpg conversion? The
monochrome effect is nice too.

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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com:
Nice sky and sails, but the rest is not up to it, especially the sea.

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
The graininess of the clouds and sails give this scene 
an interesting feel, and the lighting helps it too.  Nice 
work on the setting sun.  Now, about the sea itself... 
um... well, it just looks more like molten gold than water, 
and I think it really hurts the rest of the scene.  Overall 
not a bad effort, though.

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From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk:
Quite a surreal look to this, which works fairly well.  The clouds don't
seem to go right into the distance.  The texture of the sails on the baot
is very good.  

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From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au:
That is some rough water! Very nice clouds though.

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From delfeld@mailcity.com:
A strange sea, but a neat visual effect.  You didn't say if you had tried it or
not, but for realism, the sea has many colors and levels of transparency and
reflection.  See : Alberto Mendoza's "AM_WRECK" entry for some excellent work
on these qualities.