===== Nice realism ===== The clouds come into the water and dont look very real because of that. ===== It looks so real! You've capitalized on all of the best assets raytracing has to offer. High technical points here! Artistically it's kind of static but well balanced. The use of focal blur was a nice touch! ===== The glass is beautiful, and the straw is pretty cool. One thing that I noticed is that you used three or four seperate lights that show up on the spheres. An Area_Light might make the shadows softer and eliminate the multiple lights.... ===== A lot of bendy straws this month. This is the best. Very nice composition, lovely table texture. ===== Nice image, but the multiple light sources reflected in the metallic balls and glass make it look less realistic. It would have been better to use only one "sun" (and compensate with more ambient light if necessary). ===== Although this is a very nice image (terrific use of glass textures), its not clear why this would be a "summer" thing. Perhaps I just missed the connection. Next time you might consider adding a little bit to your text file explaining how you feel it connects to the topic. ===== Nice glass, though I wonder what the pinball balls are doing there... ===== Absolutely gorgeous picture, beautiful objects, well designed and textures. Has nothing to do with summer, and the spheres are gratuitous. ===== Beautiful image! ===== Nice work...I like all of the glass effects, but.... Summer just isnt there... Try using some red's, oranges and yellow's, maybe a warm sun down in the back to increase the feeling of summer. ===== The picture does'n really give the feel of summer. ===== A few questions to be answered: What's in the glass? Where does this scene take place? What are those spheres? ===== Nice to look at, but then again I'm a fan of glass. Overall I don't think it's intricate enough for the high marks, but it is nice. ===== The glass looks really realistic, but the clouds in the back doesn't... ===== nice glass, sea, sky; chrome spheres + ashtray might've been better replaced w/ summer fruit slices ===== Nice Looking scene, very cool crystaline looking, though a little more background might of helped :) ===== arrangement not aesthetically pleasing. ===== The glass and the metal spheres look really nice together. ===== Ashtray looks ok, but those metalballs looks out of place. ===== I like the use of colors and the glass reflections in the stir stick. This is nice abstract ray-trace. The sky is very nice, unexpected. ===== Nice ashtray. ===== poor horizont Notable for lighting