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From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com:
It is a bit difficult to see a human shape in the red thing. The loneliness is
quite apparant.

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From whitey@telefragged.com:
you should make it more apparent that it's an astronaut, it's kind of vague.

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From ruy@hipernet.com.br:
Yes, I can relate. I thought about Gagarin when i first knew of the current
topic.

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From dapigg2000@yahoo.com:
I'd be pretty lonely. 20,000 miles from McDonald's...
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From mvernon@srendered.com:
nice lens flare.

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From rclee@oklahoma.net:
Good modeling.  The cup reflection seems too bright.

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From glenn@mccarters.net:
Good try, but some flaws mar the image.  I don't know what the object is =
dead-center in the picture.  I think the scene would be far better =
without it.  The sun should be smaller and less yellow.  Many of the =
stars look oval.  More objects in the helmet reflection would be nice.  =
How about if you showed the *destruction* of the space station -- =
cutting off all contact?  Now that would be lonely!

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From bill@apocalypse.org:
Nice use of relection and coloring.

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From p_chan@shaw.ca:
The lense flare effect on the sun is excellent, but I find 
the on on the rocket way too strong.  I would have 
preferred to have a clearer view of the spaceship.  I like 
the use of reflection in the helmet to give a view of the 
astronauts surroundings.  Oh... I don't know why I never 
thought of this before (maybe the lens flare triggerred 
the idea), but an excellent effect would be to dim the 
stars as they get near the sun, as the bright light from 
the sun would make these less visible.

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
The intensity of the glow from the sun and especially the 
rocket seems to draw my eye away from the lonely 
astronaut, which serves to defeat the purpose of the 
scene to me.  The modelling on the space station looks 
good, and the helmet looks decent.

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From clem@dhol.org:
I like the reflection in the helmet.