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From tek@evilsuperbrain.com:
This image has a really good feel to it. The lighting looks a little artificial
but the greens it brings out work really well with the whole scene. The grassy
hill is really nice too.


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From rgow@lanset.com:
Good idea, and good job on the lightning bolt.  Seems a bit dark for a lightning
strike though.



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From the_dark_allies@hotmail.com:

Nice looking tree.  Lighting looks good on the lightening.  (No pun intended?). 

 P.S.  How long would you think those rocks could sit at that angle counting
environment erosion? :P

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From sammyf@wanadoo.fr:
sorry to tell you this, but when I first saw the picture and hadn't looked the
text file yet, I thought there was some guy urinating in the tree :\ Less
sparks might have worked better I guess .

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From N6re@mminternet.com:
Brightness from the flash is greater than the sun!

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From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de:

Quite nice image.

The "sparks" actually look a lot more like drops, like the tree was leaking
water. Real sparks have some characteristics that make them identifiable as
such:
- they emit light themselves
- the fly away in all directions
- they only emit light for a short period of time, after which they are almost
invisible (or, in fact non-existent).
- they very light-weight, and consequently blown away by the wind very easily,
and influenced heavily by drag even from standing air

In essence, sparks do never follow parabolic trajectories, except in a vacuum.
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From david.madore@ens.fr:
Nice image, and rather impressive, but the sparks look fake.

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From dick@buckosoft.com:
I love the lighting.  But the "sparks" of the lightning strike on the tree look
like the tree is peeing to me.  I was wondering at first why there was water
coming out of the tree.

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From clem@dhol.org:
The grass and tree are good.  The lightning is ok.  The 
rocks are too regular.  The "sparks" look more like some 
sort of waterfall.

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From p_chan@shaw.ca:
The lightening bolt looks very good.  I would have 
prefered a flash, and more luminous looking sparks.

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From batronyx@alliancecable.net:
Nifty effects.

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From jfempire@yahoo.co.uk:
Great work...Night lighting could be tweaked

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From slone@hiwaay.net:
Nice tree and lightning. The background images are a bit fuzzy. I think
of lightning as being thicker close up (near the tree), but it still 
looks good. The sparks pour off mostly in one direction and I wish I
could see the strike point better, though the silouette is dramatic.
The bark looks a little furry on the trunk.


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From r@jerkweed.kiva.net:
I think the sparks need to be a lot brighter, red or whiter.  It looks like sap
leaking out of the tree.