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From gregj56590@aol.com:
Doesn't lend itself to theme.
Huge wood grains in bat would crack it on first hit!
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From d97ta@efd.lth.se:
the marble slab in the foreground looks a little too clean :)
also, shouldn't there be some woodland around the field?

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From marc_w@ncx.com:
the sunset is really nice.

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From simon.davis@altavista.net:
A great scene, but the justification of it being 'nature' didn't convince me I'm afraid. 
It'll get good marks when 'sports' comes up.

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From buck@cs.byu.edu:
Nice image--I really like the sun.  The textures in generally are very
well done

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From bill@apocalypse.org:
The sun looks too small - I'd prefer it to be larger for artistic
reasons - I saw your posts about the technical reasons, but it looks
pathetic...

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From ethelm@bigfoot.com:
Striking image (pun). Graphic but connection to subject, 
doubtful in our opinion.

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From arcana@sinbad.net:
This close to the ground, you'd see more detail of the dirt, hard as I know that is to create. The sun, being that ruddy and near the horizon, would cause a glow in the atmosphere nearby.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Clean, evocative, carefully crafted, but many details are too small to be seen.  To you, it's an intricate scene, but to me it's fifty percent dirt and home plate.
The baseball and bat are nearly perfect.  Great sky.  Fine lighting.
Not one single tiny hill or tree in the background?  Where is this, in Flatland?
Home plate looks unrealistic where it joins the ground: a perfectly sharp line.
Without the text file, I would never connect this scene to "Nature". It's the general-vs-specific problem: you chose to portray a specific scene that means "Nature" to you, but I cannot generalize from the scene back to the theme.  Definitely to "Baseball".  Probably to "Sports".  But not to "Nature".
Good artistic notes.  Agreed, scene is definitely better without the cap.


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From r@199.45.245.103:
Nice. Very successful. I like the composition. Might this not look better lit solely by the sun? I think that would give it more texture (in the artistic sense) than the bland white light from the left does now.
Notable for composition