===== From chris@bluelectrode.com: Great image. Simplistic yet well structured with a good composition. Nice use of a pseudo-focal blur, even though the real thing would have been more technically correct. Overall a beauty. One of my top ten. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: great rocks! ...and wonderful realism overall. ===== From YaelParis@operamail.com: Nice composition maybe the water is a bit too flat. I really like the lightning! ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: you should be a landscape designer ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: Very nice - a bit of weathering on the sunshade, and some work on the water would have pushed my score up. ===== From ameede@madmac.com: ameede@madmac.com ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: Does this belong to a private house or to a building block ? In the latter case I would fear for my privacy ... A very nice submission. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Very appropiated aspect ratio. Very nice details. All well done, fine, calm. Great! ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: Technical - You have done a wonderful job with the lighting and blurring effects but did you also create the furnishings or are they imported objects? Artistic - Very good Theme - a different interpretation of a garden ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: This is beautiful to look at. Very nicely done. The water reflection gradient is very effective, but I would like to see at least a few ripples there so we can actually see the surface! I can't tell for sure if you used a refractive index for the water, but it doesn't look like it - in whihc case that would help too. That's about all the criticism I can come up with - this is really very good overall.