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From rgow@lanset.com:
Very nice! I love the ground textures and the pail.

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From tek@evilsuperbrain.com:
Nice grass and focal blur. The textures are really good and look very natural.

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From shay@simcoparts.com:
I've never been to Yokum, but have seen quite a few scenes like this in Texas.
The fence posts are exceptional, as is the rust on the bucket. The window glass
looks artificial and detracts from the rest of the image. 





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From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com:
A very good picture, with the right amount of focus loss and detail.
Unfortunate, though, that it isn't entirely on topic.

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From awesomeamazingaaron@yahoo.com:

Good concept the background looks great but fake for some reason can't tell
exactly why.
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From ruy@hipernet.com.br:
Your barbed wire is a bit too thick, but either than that, a great image.

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From batronyx@alliancecable.net:
I never heard of Yokum, but I grew up in the panhandle around Amarillo. This
image immediately reminded me of home. The glass on the shack looks kind of
fake for some reason, but otherwise, everything here is just superb.

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From charliemc@prodigy.net:
very nice work. i'm not sure i really approve of a lot of the photoshop
manipulations with photos and alpha channels for this type of competition. Also
this topicc is meant to stress the landscape idea not really a view of some
rurual found objects. Terrific work though.

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From martin@simaltech.com:
Truly stunning.  One of my pics for top three.


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From :
  It's ok.  You followed all the conventional rules for images, and created the
effect that that type of imagery is supposed to create.  I am sure you must
understand them well, but look forward to your exploration of deeper problems
in art.
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From brendthess@attbi.com:
Unfortunately, either perspective or scale are hosed 
when it comes to the shack and the fence.  If the shack 
is physically where itt appears to be (between the 2nd 
and 3rd fenceposts), it is either 3 - 4 feet (1- 1.3 metre) 
tall, or magical.  The atmospheric haze, the color 
patterns on the ground, everything combines to say that 
the perspective or scale is wrong...  Still, an attractive 
image.

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From SRJeff@vbbn.com:
Nice image, particularly for a first image.  The background was a little bit
blurred; this may be a focal technique of yours, but I would have preferred the
entire thing in focus.  The ground is a little flat, though; a few
honest-to-goodness rocks (rather than rocks on the texture) would have been a
good addition.
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From clem@dhol.org:
Very good bucket posts and wire.  The building looks too 
much like a toy.  The broken window looks painted on.

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From p_chan@shaw.ca:
Excellent job setting a mood for the image.  One thing 
that I find missing in the scene is "artificial" 
imperfections in the fence posts.  They way they look 
now, I get the impression that all the imperfections are 
natural, but I would expect to see some "scars" cause 
by human hands.

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From glenn@mccarters.net:
Nice rusty bucket!  Hardly anything "spectacular" here but a fine image =
nonetheless.  Funny sense of scale -- which should appear much bigger: a =
nearby bucket handle or a section of barbed wire 30-feet away?

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From irtc_mail@yahoo.co.uk:

Nice bucket. Overall scene not very spectacular. Everything except the
foreground looks strangely 2D.


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From hgregory3a@aol.com:
Second highest marks I given for this round. Congrats on a fine firstever IRTC
entry.  You obviously have much skill and talent.  Look forward to your next.


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From r@168-215-245-100.gen.twtelecom.net:
WOW!
Notable for textures, composition, lighting, originality, modelling


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From file:
Nice depth of field. Keep this up and you'll be rivalling Gilles Tran. My only
criticism is that the lighting seems a bit flat.