===== From bfranke2@home.com: I really like the rocks, but the blades of grass need more work. I don't get it. What one element proves no man has ever visited the place? Oops, now I get it. Those little thingies are gold nuggets. However, you should have made them the same way as the gray stones. ===== From tony@j4tb.com: I wouldn't be too hard on yourself your image is a lot more OT then some I have seen. The layout of the image is nice but it lacks texture on the rocks and blades of grass. The water seems too clear looks like your IOR is off. ===== From jd@surveyor.in-berlin.de: Wow, the funniest grass I'd seen so far! ===== From christophe.bouffartigue@libertysurf.fr: The stones, the water and their textures are great, but the blades and big plants are not.... Tres bon travail sur les textures, mais l'herbe et les plantes "cassent" un peu l'image... C'est dommage, t'etait sur la voie pour nous faire un "running water II, le retour..." ;) ===== From spencer@early.com: The rocks and water each look exceptional, but the grass looks out of place. Is that monster grass to the right a fluck or did you mean that to happen? Also, the rocks look all too much like multifractals. ===== From javaearl@hotmail.com: Very interesting plants. Good water. Gold nuggets seem too unrealistic (far too polygonal), but that doesn't take away from the overall effect. ===== From warp@iki.fi: The blades of grass look too unnatural. And they are all identical. More detail and more variety could have done good. ===== From whitey@telefragged.com: I have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to be. ===== From luisvaloyes@malditasea.zzn.com: I like the terrain, but the plants could be improved ===== From dmacisaacj@hotmail.com: Honey I shrunk the monitor. Those are some large blades of grass. not bad gold looks good ===== From chris_hormann@gmx.de: Excellent job on the stones/water, the grass has some scaling problem ===== From jouni@mikrobitti.fi: Well interpreted, good composition. Love the nuggets, the roughness is a good feat. Some more work on the grass blades and other minor details would've made this one rock hard. Well done! ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: The rocks look good, especially with the overlying moss texture. The smaller grass blades look good, but the larger ones could use some work on their shaping. The nuggets look pretty good, but their shape is more that of gems than of nuggets... nuggets are a lot bumpier and rougher. ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Interesting idea, but the execution needs work. The "nuggets" should not be crystals, they should be blobby objects. And instead of placing them underwater, they should be glistening in the sunlight to draw our eye to them. Nice grey/green stones and water. Very strange leafy blades, growing straight out of the hard rock? ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: A wilderness of sorts, good rock formation and use of water. But I feel the image is a tad too crowded or busy. No central point of focus. However good technical work done here, with marks raised accordingly.