===== From jaime@ignorancia.org: Finally you managed it close to perfection. Amazing! ===== From edward_dixon2001@yahoo.com: A spectacular image. Don't know how it might be improved. Very cohesive light, textures and models - they all go very well together. I will be studying this one for some time. ===== From dooby@breathemail.net: The water and the rocks are very impressive ===== From bonsalva@bellsouth.net: GReat scene! ===== From elias@users.sourceforge.net: In case I can get my votes done, this is the first time I'm voting in the IRTC, and I chose this image as the first to vote on (after shortly browsing through all of them) - and it gets the maximum points. Artistic Merit: 20/20. It just looks perfect to me. The mountains, animals, clouds, even the stones, everything seems to be placed just where it should be. And also the overall impression this image has is quite an artistic merit, not to speak of the realism - looking at it makes me hear the soft splashing of the water. (I know, I should hear the horn..) Technical Merit: Some areas of the picture look a bit grainy to me, but maybe that's caused from JPG or from me staring at it for too long. I'm viewing all the pictures in PSP, and with the zoom function I tried to find any small glitch revealing this picture as a rendered one.. but I failed. To me it just is technically perfect. 20/20 Concept, originality, interpretion of theme: Looking at some other entries, including my own, the author of this image has chosen quite an original theme. I can't give it anything else than 20/20. Oh well, on to the next 104 images.. ===== From castlewrks@aol.com: Too bad you didn't put your figure closer to the viewer...there is a lack of anything tangible to place a viewers focus on... it is all background... background in that the scale is all similar and the coloring is all similar. ===== From ceggi@tiscalinet.it: FANTASTIC! ===== From delfeld@mailcity.com: I like the word "menhir". I am certain that no doe or fawn would watch (and no oe would nurse) while wolves were that close. . . they would be on the move away. Good work with the grass, rocks, hills and flowers; it should give a lot of people ideas of how to work with such truck. The complimentary color scheme is effecive, if a little old. What does the Celtic symbol mean? Classic aerial perspective is well worked out, though I find the technique in wilderness images overused and rather boring - but it looks good here! (to paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield). As I tell anyone who brings it up, realism is not the only art form. Good work with the thematic interpretation, though it may be significant and useful to represent a more modern version, even one's own. But do not misunderstand, I think it is a nice image overall. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: In a word, beautiful. A very painted quality to it, which suits its concept well. My top pick for the round. ===== From file: Man, this scene is great, i can_t stop watching it. The only faults i can find is some reflections on the rocks and the hair of the lord (don_t look real hair but carved of stone). Really it_s breathtaking. Notable for composition, textures, modelling