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From skipt1@aol.com:
What a beautiful image.  Artistically stunning.  This could be argued, but comparetively I don't find the image very technically challenging as Terragen did most of the work.  What would have helped the rendering greatly is something to give it scale.  I know there is not much on Mars to work with... perhaps pathfinder or some sort of future earth relic?
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From povray@doublezero.uklinux.net:
The big let-down is the letterboxing. If you want to change the aspect ratio, just change it, don't display big black bands on my screen. The landscape (or what I can see of it through the dust) is good but the sky is a bit Earth-like for my taste. Despite this, this is an interesting and worthwhile image.
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From shevlin@uic.edu:
Good idea, and the frost adds a nice touch.  The sunlight filtering through the haze obstructs the view a little too much, though.
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From kschwartz@earthlink.net:
Maybe something to put the mountains in perspective, like a space rover.

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From hildurka@simnet.is:
A wonderful image, even though it is not obvious that this is a Martian landscape. I love the interpretation of the topic.

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From sshelby@shelbyvision.com:
Very nice work, but it fails to convey the desired effect. 
It doesn't look like a canyon.

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From jacoons@ameritech.net:
Excellent ground texture. 


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From file:
Beautiful scenic pic. Not quite sure how it fits the category of epic proportions though.
Notable for lighting


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From file:
I'd rate this one the winner. Maybe I'm just too easily swayed by atmospheric effects, but I find the overall experience of this image very convincing. The composition is attractive, the colours are subtle, and the textures are detailed and convincingly scaled without being intrusive. Real photographs of other planets always leave me wondering about scale (no roads, houses, trees etc as reference points) so this image could easily have suffered from the same problem. However, the author/artist has used atmospheric effects so skillfully that we are convinced that this is truly a scene of epic proportions, not just a close-up of a few pebbles. This work of art is stunningly beautiful.
Notable for originality, lighting, textures, modelling, composition


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From file:
Too empty. Add some living things, like flying birds, would be better. Otherwise, a magnificient landscape.