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From chris@bluelectrode.com:
Between the poor jpg conversion, loose theme connection, and the fact that the whole scene consists of a single image map, no, you can not expect to get anything higher than a 1 in my book.  Taking advantage of loopholes won't gain you much respect anywhere.

I hope your animation submission is better.  And please, if you don't plan on actually raytracing solid geometry, or at least applying _some_ effort, don't submit anything at all.
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From bill@apocalypse.org:
It looks pretty blurry and "artificaty".  Had you modelled 
the scene, I would have liked it a lot more. I've been to 
this garden...

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From gregj56590@aol.com:
Violates the rules.
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From whhale@nvl.army.mil:
One of those "Get that entry in at all costs." things huh!?

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From ianshumsky@hotmail.com:
A really great idea, but a pity you didn't have time to do 
your image.

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From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk:
bah, humbug.

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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com:
Not a good idea to put a picture. Who owns the official copyright to that
picture ? did you ask for permission to use ?
Well if you cannot submit entries to two competitions then just do one of them
please. Your loosing your time, mine and a bit of your reputation. I don't mean
to sound too harsh now, but I want to be firm.

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From karl@pemail.net:
If you must do something as basic as this then you could 
at least have used a higher resolution source image - this 
just looks a blurry mess and the artifacts from the original 
file are clearly visible.

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From albiaprime@aol.com:
Technical - just like you said in your .txt file
Artistic - the photographer had an eye for balance and placement of objects within the picture
Theme - original intrepretation of the theme

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From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au:
At least you could have used a decently scanned photo...