===== From jaime@ignorancia.org: Wow! I never managed to get my stacked skies look so good! The rest is also very well done, and the whole image is amazing. There is something about depth, tough.. perhaps a little blur at distance will help. ===== From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com: "Wow", was the first thing I thought when I saw this picture. And I'm still thinking it... ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: **** ===== From : Very good work! I'd say this one is going to be a very top contender. The only thing that looks slightly odd to me at first glance is perhaps the clouds, but then again, maybe it's just me. ===== From awilcox@dreampeach.com: You really brought everything together. Looks very nice. ===== From ruy@hipernet.com.br: Great picture, technically speaking. But it doesn't seem to be the fairest depiction of the topic "Loneliness", though, specially because the bush has plenty of company. ===== From jpgargoyle@sapo.pt: Very good pic, although theres something about the rock I can't explain. Best regards. ===== From dapigg2000@yahoo.com: Finally! Something that's lonely and happy. Good twist to the topic. Very enjoyable pic! ===== From mvernon@srendered.com: I thought the scene was about the lizard. ===== From wozzeck@club-internet.fr: Clearly one of the best images this round. A bit too loosely related to the topic IHMO. Anyway, that one would make a nice poster :-) ===== From rclee@oklahoma.net: I like the textures. The clouds seem out of focus. ===== From jrcsurvey@aol.com: Home run! The interpretation of theme is not so important as is the striking pictorial realism. Beautifully textured and modelled. You have brought together all the elemen= ts of a complex scene. ===== From glenn@mccarters.net: Good work, but I think a blurred background or different camera angle = might work better here to emphasize the bush in the rock and separate it = from its surroundings. This image would look good in 3D stereo! The = shading of the rocks is very nice. Good realism. ===== From scandia3815@yahoo.com: Very impressive landscape, notable especially for the foreground rock- the crack is very realistic. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: Very appealing scene... the coloring and the smoothing details are well done ===== From p_chan@shaw.ca: The rocks in the foreground and the crack look very nice. The textures look fairly realistic in the foreground, but the mountains in the background seem too artificial. ===== From jl@artcom-gmbh.de: This scene has a good "natural" feel to it. ===== From clem@dhol.org: Pretty, bu twould have been better for the next round.