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From elvish_archer@mailcity.com:
too dark, I think u must add lightning and rain drops

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From darwallace@earthlink.net:
Good idea, but the jagged water heightfield hurt the art score.

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From pbourke@swin.edu.au:
Ships very crude, water not very well done.

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From panthus@xtra.co.nz:
Good atmosphere, maybe a little dark (perhaps a light in the boats could help
bring them out of the darkness), and a well chosen subject.
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From dvnss@mega.ist.utl.pt:
A very meaningfull image.

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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:
Nice atmopsheric affects.  The water doesn't look like ocean water.

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From douge@nls.net:
The atmosphere is good, largely because of the fog and sky.  The water looks
unrealistic (the waves are too big and the triangles are noticeable in the
foreground).

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From tony@j4tb.com:
Your image certainly captures the feel of being in the midst of a storm on the
sea. Your sky and fog are well done. Your boats look nice, good detail in them.
 Your water hightfield really makes the image but the surface is too banded for
a rough sea. Make the water one predomanent color then add a little froth on
the tips of the waves. (This could be done with a gradient pigment & color
map.)

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From gregj56590@aol.com:
Pretty interesting. Concept of ocean waves not quite right. Perhaps just a
slightly different texture would greatly improve this image.

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From whhale@nvl.army.mil:
THe sea seems too rough.  I've found that scaling the HF on the y axis helps
flatten it out some.  Sorry that you didn't get to know your relatives... they
are one of our most precious resources. 

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From frepe@ifm.liu.se:
The sky looks good.

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From bbowen@cswnet.com:
I like that sky.

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From husakm@vscht.cz:

Too flat models, no details ...
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From StephenF@whoever.com:
The ships look pretty good, and I like the sky here.  The 
texturing on the water and the land could use some 
work.

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From sjlen@ndirect.co.uk:
It has a very unfinished feel to it.  The height field seems a bit erratic and 
the modelling on the boats looks very basic also the textures on the boats look
non existant.  The sky is good.   

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From went@netcourrier.com:
The sea is not really realistic. 
It's a good idea to have created the image in grey scale.

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From delfeld@mailcity.com:
Great ocean.  The chunkiness of the heightfield works, because of the
chunkiness.  Look at the image without thinking about the meaning of it, and
you will see that there is a white strip across the center, which doesn't work
for me.  You might want to try other patches of brightness or darker darks.