===== From helene.dumur@free.fr: It's not a scene, it's only one object.. it's not enough ===== From marlo.steed@uleth.ca: This image works but would have been enhanced by a closeup with depth of field, and perhaps a more dramatic lighting setup. ===== From tigerhawk@stic.net: I would have really like to have seen thie concept for realized. It's your basic chessboard against a plain background. It would have really been lovely if you, for example, set this ontop of a table next to chairs, added a lamb to cast some nice lighting, etc. ===== From rgow@lanset.com: Good composition. Lighting makes the image very high contrast, more subdued would be better IMO. ===== From jgrimbert@free.fr: what about more environment ? There seems to be a continuity of texture on the board, but I do not know if it is wanted or an artefact. ===== From fine@head.cfa.harvard.edu: Even though this is such a simple image, and chess has been done and redone a million times, I'm attracted to it artistically, because it has such a classic computer graphics look to it. ===== From jouni@mikrobitti.fi: Really violent texture on the white pieces ;-) ===== From bertram.henze@t-online.de: Suggestion: the white ones look more interesting than the black ones. Why not invert the black-on-white texture of the white ones to a white-on-black texture on the black ones?