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From charliemc@prodigy.net:
Would make a nice Christmas card.

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From ojamies@cs.helsinki.fi:
The contrast in this image is Cristmass withoud snow. Not everyone sees it like
this but to me snow and Christmass belong togather. Your snowman look bit
plastics
and it even more contrasts my view on winter.

See you in next round  !


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From elvish_archer@mailcity.com:
ho ho ho I am Santa Claus
hee hee hee I am witch
prue, piper, phoeboe

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From hgregory3@aol.com:
Artistic - This would make a great holiday season Wallpaper-background for
your computer.
Technical - Some challenging work in here.
Concept - A seasonal contrast... 8)

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From jrcsurvey@aol.com:
Good idea.  Nicely executed.  I wish you'd pressed the symmetry aspect 
further.

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From steve@neurotrain.com:
A 15 T 12 C 20
Nicely laid out, and I like the sublte differences - the bay 
window for example.  
And while I understand the technical challenge of having 
snow, not having it takes away from the image.  
Finally, though in real life the yard layout is usually 
identical, for the purpose of the image I would have 
made the house mirror images (put the walk and path on 
the other side of the "uptight" house)
Looking at it I guess this is Christmas in a Florida suburb 
at the edge of a new development (no buildings behind 
them).

Technically, you just need practice on the plants (the 
grass looks quite good for a manicured lawn), and the 
textures of the road and sidewalk (maybe Santa, too).  
And everything looks a little too clean and perfectly 
edged. The lights are really cool.

Cool idea - that's why you get 20.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
"Tasteful" is in the eye of the beholder.  The contrast could be
strengthened by eliminating more of the decoration on the right side: the
sidewalk candles and pole wrap fall into the tacky category to me.  A house
spotlight in the front yard of one of the houses would also help increase
the contrast in both the visual and thematic sense.

Good solid technical work all over.  But artistically uninspired -- can you
find a better view than straight down the property line?  I know what you
were trying to accomplish (a mirror-image comparison), but the result is a
childish "can you find the differences between these two pictures?" effect.
Moving the camera to the left, for example, would make the tacky house more
overbearing and obnoxious, while making the tasteful house even more
subdued.  Wouldn't this enhance the contrast?

Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing more of your images.


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From hfventer@ing.sun.ac.za:
Somehow the snowman seems a bit overlit

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From white@rational.com:
Great concept!  Totally timely.

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From mark.wagner17@gte.net:
Tacky vs. tasteful?  A quick drive around my 
neighborhood reveals that both houses are in very good 
taste.

To get a truly tacky house, you should:
1) Outline all the windows and the door with christmas 
lights.
2) Add two more Santas, both in the front lawn.  Also, 
add a sleigh and a number of reindeer.
3) Add moving figures in all the windows.
4) Add ten times as many lights to the bushes, and 
double the number of lights in the trees.
5) Outline the peak of the roof and the sides of the 
house with lights.
6) Add lights to the wreath on the front door.
7) Outline the railings on the front porch with lights
8) Add a Christmas tree visible through one of the 
windows
9) Ideally, all these lights should blink.  At different rates.
This will produce a house that is less tacky than the one 
I can see through my bedroom window.