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From chris@bluelectrode.com:
Nice.  Everything looks well modeled.  Very realistic.  My only complaint is
that toad...which looks a bit cartoonist and stiff.  Also, the layout appears a
bit disorganized.  

I like the textures, especially the ones used for the hills to make the
graduated dirt/mossy-grass look.  The placement of the vegatation looks very
realistic.  The dragonfly is exceptional with a very life-like pose.  Well
done.

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From YaelParis@operamail.com:
too bad you didn't create the main models, nice composition anyway.


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From rbyman@rockies.net:
Great image. Could have stuck to the theme a  little better. Seems more suitable

for a "Nature" theme.

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From whhale@nvl.army.mil:
Great image.  I would not have known that this was a human generated ecosystem
without the text.

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From ianshumsky@hotmail.com:
The best butterfly this round!

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From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk:
Loses something on concept, as I am not sure it's a garden. The texture of
the frog doesn't quite work.

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From ameede@madmac.com:
It is nice to see that the work contains a story, or in this case, a personal
expierience.  Also, your composition or layout of the structural elements was
done very well.

ameede@madmac.com
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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com:
I thought frogs casted their tongue rather than jump at their preys.
However, I like the idea of movement.
I nice entry.
The Copyright name does not seem to match the declared author name ! Is that
normal ?

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From matthew2913@hotmail.com:
Great Rendering!
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From jaime@ctav.es:
Very artistic, with storytelling style at the same time. Amazing composition,
lighting and texturing. The only flag it's that I would expected a more "wet" 
texture for the frog. Great, anyhow, and one of my favs for this round.

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From wozzeck@club-internet.fr:
Tres joli. Un peu statique cependant. Mais peut-etre que ce qui ne passe pas
bien c'est cette impression que la lumiere vient de nulle part due a la totale
absence d'ombres: on dirait que c'est un collage.

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From albiaprime@aol.com:
Technical - Very nice work on all aspects of the picture
Artistic - the frog seems a bit too predominant in the picture and detracts from
the 
       lovely pond in the background
Theme - I suppose one could think of it as a water garden...

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From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au:
This is almost a great image. Everything looks wonderful - the water is
gorgeous,
the rocks, the trees, the insects - all excellent. The one thing that isn't
wonderful
is unfortunately the central object in the scene - the frog! The texture looks a
bit
smooth and plastic - it's a fake frog in the middle of this lovely
photo-realistic
scene. Still, in a lesser scene, the frog would go unremarked, so credit for
making
the rest of this image so good.


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From file:
A very enjoyable image.  The sky is wonderfull as is most of the texturing. 
Only flaw I see (which is tough in any 3d rendering) is the cattails are not
very fuzzy.