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From charliemc@prodigy.net:
Kinda thorney isn't it.

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From hgregory3@aol.com:
Technical - 12 days to render! Ouch! Technically challenging work though and
thus high technical marks.

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From jrcsurvey@aol.com:
That is a great image!  And so well born of of the raytracing medium.

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From steve@neurotrain.com:
A 18 T 15 C 17
very impressive picture.
The biggest artistic improvement would be to make the 
rose more expressive (by that I mean curl the stalk to 
show fear or orient the leaves to show defiance - right 
now it looks tossed in there), and making the 
background more of a darker brown/gray to create the 
illusion of an infinitely thick thorn bush.
Technically the thorns are are perfect.  I can not think of 
a way to improve them.  The style of model and texture 
compliment each other beautifully.  The rose needs a bit 
more work though - for example there are no thorns...
Good concept

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
Nice work on the thorn bushes... very imposing.  The 
rose looks pretty good, if a touch on the simplistic side.  
Interesting interpretation of the topic.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Definitely a contrast between the ugly imposing thornbushes and the lonely
graceful rose.
Strangely, the image itself doesn't have much dynamic range.

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From hfventer@ing.sun.ac.za:
The contrast idea got a bit lost.  I think the way you 
created the immage is brilliant!  Well done.