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Thanks again to those who left comments and gave me some much needed advice. Whether or not it's an improvement from the original I'll leave for you to decide. ;)

Wonderful scene with a cool house!!

Nice job!! Much improved over the original. Nicely evocative lighting.

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I like that image a lot! Just an amature's quibble here but what kind of bird is that? It looks out of place.

SteveJax: So you've been to this imaginary place and are familiar with the local flora and fauna? Extraordinary! :^)

No need to get smart. I'm entitled to my opinion. It just doesn't look like it fits to me ok? If you want nitpicking specifics, how about this. It doesn't look blurred enough in comparision to things that look to be at the same distance, like it was Plop-Rendered in after the fact. This is in comparison to the blur used on the bush it's sitting right next to. It's being out of place had nothing to do with the "Species". I guess I should have been specific about that and made it apparent that my looks out of place had nothing to do with it's species but I didn't want to be a nit picker. I asked what kind of Bird it was, simply because I can't tell from the image and it looks like an oversized eagle. Now to get really picky, Eagles, if that's what it is, aren't exactly "Forest" birds so much as they are found near mountains, hills and great plains. Do I need to go on? Oh and my parting comment is that I never saw his previous works and this wasn't titled "Imaginary Place" in any place that I saw.

It wasn't Plop-Rendered, but yes it does appear to stick out for some reason (i noted in the Gallery post that I could nitpick this one for quite some time ;) ).

Oh, and it's a hawk as noted in the image notes. Yes, he's a big one at that, but it's my fantasy. :)

Thanks for your input! :)

Thanks Anvil, Unfortunately for me I guess, I didn't scroll down and read your notes. I'm new to this. If I'd read them I could have left my comment simply that he looked out of place without questioning his species. All i knew on my first viewing was that he stuck out as out of place to me. I had to go back and look at him again after Tjon's remark to try to figure out why. I guess my lesson for the day is actually describe why things look out of place when you comment instead of just leaving cryptic comments like my first one, but then, I did say I'm an amature and the image does look great otherwise.

No prob SteveJax, thanks again for the comments.

BTW: I like the Robinson posts in your gallery. I tried to watch that show, I really did, but they didn't fly around in space enough to suit me back then (as they did in Star Trek) and I often thought the show should have been renamed from "Lost In Space" to "Stuck On a Dull Planet Set"

heh

LOL! Yeah! I liked certain elements about the show enough to become a fan. Mainly I'm a fan of the "Gear" and Vehicles from the show. The Sci-Fi element that they had in the first season and the idea of a family in space. I could have done without the camp format they devolved into to compete with Batman and I could have done without Smith becoming a characature of the Evil man he was in the beginning. Just an FYI and head's up for anyone interested in knowing it. The WB has re-licensed Lost In Space and it's now in production again as a completely new Television series. None of the gear or vehicles or robot will be the same though which is another shame.

Interesting about the new show ... didn't know. I did enjoy the movie and was thrilled to see the old Jupiter 2 incorporated into it, rather unique.

Have to agree with the campiness bit, it was a real shame how they ruined the show ... oh how I loved to hate Dr. Smith. ;)

It was the gear tho, the neat "toys" that kept me interested as long as I was (as was probably partly responsible for my getting interested in computers later in life). On that note, sitting on my monitor here is a little model of the Jupiter2 made in 98 by Johnny Lightning. :)

Sorry, SteveJax. As you say, you are new, so you don't know I'm harmless. It's a pet peeve of mine when people have problems with things that don't look "like a real one" when dealing with fantasy. And the little house was the tip-off for me that it was fantasy. Given that, the bird could have been bigger than the house and it would still be OK. BTW, no one said you aren't entitled to an opinion. Of course you are. And I'm entitled to my opinion, as well. Which might not agree with yours. And as far as getting smart, I don't believe I can, LOL. John

All's well that ends well. I learned to be more specific in my appraisal of art because of it. You made me go back and look again so I could verbalise what was bugging me beyond just "it look's out of place."