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From tek@evilsuperbrain.com:
A nice image, pretty simple to understand but with lots of details.


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From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com:
Impressive image, and also quite fun to look at. I knew that there was going to
be a light house, but this one is different. 

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From ojamies@cs.helsinki.fi:
I think the ship doesn't realy look like a wreck, and lightning doesn't have
strength. The island is great.
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From darwallace@earthlink.net:
The ship looked like it sank yesterday.  Mold, rot, cobwebs...  applicable with
texture layers or texture_map.  Otherwise awesome... the storm is a nice
touch.

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From :

Quite a number of elements.  I somehow realy love the sinking boat.  One item
you may want to fix is the lightning.  It looks more like a solid stick.  The
sides of the island look a bit odd.  But I do like this one quite a bit.
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From awilcox@dreampeach.com:
Good modelling.  The height field needs more colour, I think.  The water needs
some work too.
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From beighton155@yahoo.com:
I like where you were coming from in this picture, but it looks too much like a
childs toy set which has been left alone.

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From ruy@hipernet.com.br:
A good concept, if the topic was Myst. It doesn't strike me as a good
representation of "Loneliness", though. Also, your boat and buildings could use
some improvement to be more realistic.

Despite my comments above, I do like the overall feeling of this pic.

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From dapigg2000@yahoo.com:
Amazing! One of my favourites. Looking at it, wonderful modelling of ALL the
details, a good sky, wonderful halo, etc..

It's pretty good. Certain touches push it down artistically though... no
misting, other stuff, but the modelling of the barrels in the water and the
castle and the .... all make up for it.
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From cfusner@enter.net:
The texture of the heightfield seems slightly out of place compared with
the water and the manmade objects, but this has a very pleasantly surreal
feeling that reminds one of a fine painting. (appropriate with a Myst 
inspired
theme... I still recall the Myst motto: "The surrealistic world that will
become your reality")

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From daffy-duck@worldnet.att.net:
Try to work a little more on keeping objects proportionate to each other.

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From tim.nikias@gmx.de:
I don't think this wizard is lonely, he's more likely 
running amok with his power...

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From suso@suso.org:
  I find it a little suspicious that you can do all the buildings, ship and
island
 in povray, but needed to use moray for the sails of the ship.


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From rclee@oklahoma.net:
I really like the small buildings, especially the 
nearest one.  Had a hard time understanding the material in front of the tower.
The sails should be blowing in the wind.

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From glenn@mccarters.net:
I can certainly see some of the Myst-like elements here.

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From bill@apocalypse.org:
A complicated scene, I'm unsure what the a viewer is suppose to take away 
from it.  An evil wizard who lures ships to their doom on a tiny 
island...  I like the detail of all the objects in the scene, though the 
composition seems a little scattered.

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From p_chan@shaw.ca:
The trees look very good, although some of them seem 
to have unnaturally large gaps empty of leaves.  The 
modelling of the objects in the scene is done well from 
the standpoint of detail, but I find there is a lack of 
proportion between objects in the scene.  While the 
human figure and the crow's-nest on the ship appear to 
be about the same distance away from the camera, the 
person is much bigger than the crow's-nest.

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
Good attempt at creating a complex, detailed scene.  
The two small buildings look good, but the castle seems 
rather simplistic in comparison.  The ship looks good, 
although the sails are a bit too flat.  The blue glow 
works well for drawing attention to the figure, but seems 
a little too distinct to me, especially around the edges.  
Nice mood overall.

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From clem@dhol.org:
Image is much too unfocussed.  The "I liked oit so I put it 
in" method of composition is not recommended.  A big 
problem is that no attention whatsoever was paid to proper 
relative sizes.  The individual parts are nicely done, but 
they do not add up to a coherent whole.  You could have 
helped the image with a story to provide thematic unity.  
Actually, when I first saw this, I thought that you were 
illustrating a scene from Shakesoeare's "The Tempest".