===== From ekaiser@camden.tds.net: cool. I like that story ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: I feel this is too loosley connected to the theme ===== From agage@csee.usf.edu: There shall come soft rains... ===== From english@spiritone.com: Haunting. I would break at least one chain on those swings, too. Very scary piece ===== From chris@bluelectrode.com: Morbid interpretation, but original. Technically speaking, if the nuclear blast had been strong enough to vaporize the bodies it probably would have blown away the house as well...nit-picking, sorry. Overall, not bad. ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: Conceptually high... would the bricks look like that when everything around them are burnt to crisp.... scorched perhaps. ===== From taymac@peaknet.net: great work, fits the theme , ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: Sad, but could still happen, although probalby not quite the way you depict it. It makes it rather unique. ===== From jouni@mikrobitti.fi: Nice dramatic effect with the apocalyptic sky and the blast traces on the wall. The wall and the fire inside look a bit flat. Must wonder, how can that swingy-thingy take a nuclear blast and still stand, polished and shining as it had just been swept with the famous Phong Wax? ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: I love the interpretation of theme in this one, and the sky looks like what I imagine a "nuclear sky" would look like. The fire is nice-looking, too. Overall, though, the objects look pretty simple, and the result was an average techinical score which lowers the combined score quite a bit. A good, imaginative, and pretty scene, though. ===== From clem@dhol.org: Good idea and dramatic scene, but with such a blast how did the wall remain standing and why were the swings not destroyed? Perhaps the tree would be better if the whole thing was burning. Pretty good fire. The inverse shadows are very well done. ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: An eerie and evocative image. A very nice sky and some good flames, but the rest of the modelling seems straightforward. It would be nice to see some more ruins in the background, which seems quite empty. ===== From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk: This has a really ghostly feel to it. Some description about how you created the image would have been good.