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From digitalburn@totalise.co.uk:
sky and sea good, i like the storm coming in. but the rest is a little flat



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From darwallace@earthlink.net:
The lack of wood texture quality seriously hurt the art score.
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From pbourke@swin.edu.au:
Has potential, nice stars/clear sky to storm transition. Not enough geometric
detail (junk) on the ship and in the cabin. Things are too clean!

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From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt:
More of an ideia than image

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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:

Needed more realism.
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From bbowen@cswnet.com:
A little dark. After I adjusted my monitor brightness, I could see the nice
cloud bank. 

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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com:
Interesting idea, but the wooden textures could do with quite some work.

Are the stars for real ? I mean are they an image map of our earthy sky
?

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
There's some nice work here, although overall it looks 
too simplistic.  The rope hanging down looks very nice, 
and the cloud layer looks good.  I can't help wondering 
why different board textures were used for the deck than 
for the other parts of the ship... the boards on the deck 
look pretty nice, while the others look very simplistic and 
flat.  The painting inside the cabin is a nice touch.

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From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk:
The rope looks good but all other textures look really basic and need some
work. 

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From delfeld@mailcity.com:
The clouds  really work well to create a mood in this scene. The textures for
the wood would not be so bright. . . less ambience?   Try using a very small
arealight instead of a point light to create the softer shadows of lamp or
candle light.  And, as I told someone else, you don't have to justify that
there are no people in the scene.  Other things are of interest to people than
people, and an image can be visually stunning with or without them.