===== From skipt1@aol.com: Very dramatic and artistic rendering. I don't quite follow what this has to do with desert. What is the red leave desert? A little more explanation there would have helped. Good use of fog and lighting. ===== From rgow@lanset.com: Beautiful image! Great job on the city & textures. The desert topic is not immediately apparent though, the trees do not have a desert look. ===== From i-mcnamara@cornellcollege.edu: Great picture, I love the colors. Well modeled, and you have a great sense of scale here. ===== From jacoons@ameritech.net: Although this is a technically excellent image, I don't feel "desert" when I see it. The fantasy aspect of the image did not affect the score, but if "Conan" were running through a treeless desert instead of a full forest, I would have scored this pic much higher. ===== From ericf@foothill.net: I don't know how much of this image is pre-set in the software you use, so I'm not sure if my rating is valid or not, but I like the images, especially the trees, but I'm not sure how exactly it applies to the topic. ===== From raytracing@grayproductions.net: Visually stunning. The city is great and has a nice "Myst-like" quality. The desert reference though... :) ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: It looks more like a forest area suffering from a drought than a real desert. ===== From file: Great image but the topic!!!! Notable for composition, modelling