===== From skipt1@aol.com: I love how the cacti turned out. How about using the stacked planes technique for the clouds or even media? I think you'd get a more realistic result. Also a little work on the mountain texture would help. A very nice image overall though. ===== From tek@evilsuperbrain.com: I'm not sure why, but this image seems to me to have a lot of the style of Gilles Tran (in a good way!). Very good use of standard pov macros. The mountains in the background seem a bit simple compared to the rest of the scene. ===== From rgow@lanset.com: Great textures on the rocks and sand in the foreground, although they look more to me like a beach. Skin color of girl's arms is a little odd. ===== From helene.dumur@free.fr: All the plants are very nice. ===== From ewaninthailand@yahoo.co.uk: Nice picture, you can 'see' how much work went into it. Maybe a bit more work with your sky would improve it. ===== From i-mcnamara@cornellcollege.edu: Gotta love those isosurfaces. Those cacti really are impressive. Let's see... you've got some great stuff here: impressive textures, very nice iso-ground, funky domes... it's good stuff. Keep entering in the future; I'll look forward to seeing it. ===== From jacoons@ameritech.net: Excellent foreground work, especially the cactus on the left that looks like it "got in the way" during the photograph. It's amazing what a few well-placed macros can do for an image. Improving the textures on the rocks and "dulling down" the colors a little would be an improvement. The sky is interesting, but seems a little odd. ===== From ericf@foothill.net: Nice take on the topic, I like the elements used and the balance between them. Teturing or lighting or both might be modified to make things look less cartoonish, but not a bad image overall. ===== From dylan_beadle@yahoo.com: Woman's clothe's pattern are distracting. ===== From raytracing@grayproductions.net: Would like to know a little more about where your idea came from, but you have a nice looking image here. ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: The mountains are too red compared with the rest of the scene. Otherwise excellent. ===== From file: The image is flat need light Notable for modelling