===== From ekaiser@camden.tds.net: Great image for its simplicity. Looks more like a beach than snow, but who cares? ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: From the description it sounds like you used pov-ray but you didn't say. Nice use of lighting ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: Nice image... good attention to detail ... like the foot prints in the snow... I am assuming it is snow. The snow on the stuctures doesn't seem to look right it ussually accumulates on the top. ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: The one odd thing in this submission is the apprently inverted bump map ... look at the shadows and the direction of the sun ! ===== From jouni@mikrobitti.fi: Artistic, simplistic, cool. The footprints and the other prints on the snow are examples of some really good snow-modeling. More details would of course add more to be seen. By the way, the sun is far enough to cast all shadows into the (virtually) same direction when you're looking at objects at this close a range. It's a bit too clear that the main light source isn't where the sun is, although the color intensity in the picture would let the viewer assume so. Otherwise very nice! ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: I like the sun and the use of shadows in this scene, although I thought the rocks could use a different texture and to me the footprints appear to be coming up out of the sand rather than going down into it. ===== From jaime@ctav.es: Very nice, artistic. The only complaint are the footprints on the ground: they seem inverted (for the sun position). ===== From clem@dhol.org: Very good snow, although the perspective on the footprints seems wrong. I like the vagrant sparkles in the snow. The sky isn't bad and the modelling of Stonehenge is good, but the rocks themselves need much more detailed texture. ===== From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au: I like this image - stark, yet appropriately so. The sky is simple but effective, and the snow - well, it's the first time I've seen rendered snow that looks like real snow. Unfortunately the rocks themselves do not live up to the setting - the shapes seem a little smooth and simple, and the colouring is odd. Also something in the background might improve this... a bare tree or two. ===== From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk: This really is an impressive image, though it definitely needs a height field instead of a plane for the ground. Great looking snow, stones, and the shadows are nice and soft round the edges. About the only time I've seen the lense flare used and not overdone. Good work.