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From rjhansen@hotbot.com:
Beautiful scene.

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From darce@southwest.com.au:
Very nice but more the placement and shape of birds and even some of the trees
should be more 'chaotic'.

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From tony@j4tb.com:
Your image looks very realistic. Sounds complicated though. Your sun has a nice
glow. (Difficult to do for us povray users.)


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From jd@surveyor.in-berlin.de:
The sky and the landscape are looking extremely good, but the trees and the
birds are too sharp - they are not integrated in the image. And why is the
antialializing left out at the final stage..?

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From bonsalva@bellsouth.net:

Great picture! Great atmosphere!  one mistake- when birds fly in formation-
lead bird is at the intersection of formation. Formation flies in direction
that the "v" points.
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From eallen@highway1.com:
The distant trees in the valley look out of place. Perhaps a fog of the same 
color as the sun glare would help.
Deciduous (leafy) trees in the shape of evergreens?



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From javaearl@hotmail.com:
Great background, but the foreground seems far too polygonal (triangular
leaves?)

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From warp@iki.fi:
Antialiasing could have done marvels to this image.
You used a collage of two images, the background and the foreground, and this
can be seen too clearly. The foreground looks separate from the background and
they don't look as part of the same scene. This can specially be seen in the
farthest trees.
All the birds are identical.
Deducing from your description it seems that the final image is not the direct
result of a rendering, but a collage of two images made with a non-renderer
software. This reduces your score significantly since it's against the rules.

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From dmacisaacj@hotmail.com:
nothing seems to fit witht the Terragen BG but the Terragen file is pretty cool

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From chris_hormann@gmx.de:
Wow, very impressive, there is a gap between foreground and background
(probably due to your technique) Plants in the foreground could use some
additional lighting from behind

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From jouni@mikrobitti.fi:
Well done! Really beautiful background mountain range and sky. Some more
attention 
to the foreground details would still have given this image a bit more value.
The
foreground is unnaturally dark even with the sun far behind the trees...

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
The mountainscape and the sky are very impressive.  
The trees and flowers look good, but I think the 
simplicity of the textures on them works against the 
realism of the background.  The birds seem to stand out 
a little too much against the sky, and I'm not sure their 
positioning is realistic (I think the heads should all be 
pointing toward the point of the v-shape of the 
formation.)

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Quite serene.  Spectacular skies.
Goodt integration of various tools to create the image.
A few flaws catch my eye: the blue trees in the distance seem to be 
floating, and the birds all have the exact same wing position.  And, of 
course, the triangular leaves.

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From albiaprime@aol.com:
Artistic - photorealistic sky & mountains with Impressionist Era style trees and
bushes,
   different and nicely done.  But the blue distant trees in the centre appear
to
   be floating in mid air, detracting from the images 
Technical - a lot of work with good results, especially the randomizing of tree
leaf
   colour.  only flaw is floating in mid air distant cntr trees (blue ones) in
that
   they are on the shadowed side of the mountain but are not dark and shadowed
them
   selves
Concept - very nice interpretation of wilderness