===== From tek@evilsuperbrain.com: ooh very pretty. My only criticism is that we're seeing a very small space and this would be more impressive if we could see some curves in the road and more varied scenery in general. The lighting on the water is gorgeous. ===== From iacopo.mochi@tele2.it: One of my favourites of this round. ===== From zekaric@yahoo.ca: modelling looks pretty good. I took me a moment to completely understand what I was looking at. ===== From BigTrav2001@chartermi.net: really nice work. The lighting here, and the lampposts and bridge railings are especially good, and remind me of Gilles Tran's old work in the IRTC. Very nice indeed. Small complaints though - the textures seem a little off. A bit too clean, a bit too grainy. Also, the blocks on the side of the bridge just look... like they were layed out in pov and raytraced. ===== From enrique.sahagun@uam.es: I love both the image and the idea. It is great, you get my best punctuation. ===== From p.gibellini@teinos.com: Nice lighting, summer night atmosphere. ===== From diegocg@quipo.it: Interesting idea. I like geometrical look of composition, it's a bit like a M. C. Escher drawing. ===== From glenn@mccarters.net: Excellent work overall, with fine attention to detail and an eye for = realism. One of my favorites for this round. It depicts speed quite = well by contrasting high-speed objects against stationary ones. = Although it's the stationary elements that catch our eye, so maybe this = image is really about lack of speed! The obvious flaw that everyone will point out: in this long exposure, = the highlights on the water surface should be completely blurred. The = bridge is nicely modeled, but blandly textured. I don't know whether I = like the symmetry between the two halves of the image, or would rather = see more assymetries (such as trash, street signs, different street = light types, different amounts of traffic). I find it highly unusual = that the lamp posts are staggered rather than equally spaced, especially = on the bridge. My suggestion for this image: add an old man with hat and a cane, = sitting on a park bench under a street light, facing the water. This = would provide a focal point as a counterpoint to the traffic, and would = lend an immensely personal touch to an otherwise cold image in which = humanity passes us by. I like your willingness to take creative challenges, and your attention = to detail. Keep up the good work. You're ready to take your art to the = next level. ===== From 25ct@lineone.net: A very nice, well executed image. 230 hours?? Hmm, you have the patience of a Saint... ;) However, there are a couple of things that spring to mind. I think that maybe you should have used a higher ambient with the red back-lights on the cars. My reason for this is that I don't think you would/should see the 'whole' shadow of the streetlights crossing the road, especially in the top half of your image, (it's not so prevelant in the bottom half because you only have one light there, next to the red lights). The only other thing I can suggest is that I think your crackle/granite normals are little too big on the sides of the roads, but other than this, I like this image.