Very well done!!!

Very cool artwork, quite realistic, especially the flowing mud seen through the water.

Excellent.

I really like the idea, and I love the details like the moss on the helmet. The position of the helmet makes it a little hard to figure out what I'm looking at (I had to stare at it for a while to discern what was top, bottom, sides). But more importantly, I think the helmet still looks too "new" to really convey the feeling of "lost to the swamp". Perhaps a broken faceplate/visor; or lots of big visible scratches and scuffs; or less reflectivity, as the surface has dulled over time. My two bits.

nice atmosphere and composition my friend:)

It's all in the viewers eye; for instance, at first look, I thought the helmet was just a gas bubble on the surface of dead still swamp water. Gorgeous texture work.

Thanks for the comments..as to the helmet positioning,I wanted the viewer to have to figure out what it was.So many images have everything so blatantly laid out that there is no mystery left to figure out...I wanted you to have to discern what the object was!

Sehr schönes Bild

I really like this one - crisp foreground detail (with a little bit of visual detective work), mysterious background, creepy mood... Excellent!

Excellent. Really great work on the veg and mucky terrain. Great render and depicted concept. The dangers of offworld exploration.

You achieved your goal, it took me about 30 seconds of scanning over the image to find the helmet, so I don't think that it is too shiny or "new" looking or it would have jumped out of the image like a beacon. The title made me go looking for what was lost to the swamp... kind'a like finding Waldo! LOL Great render, atmosphere, lighting and a well realised concept.

Hey Neil, You’ve achieved exactly what you set out to create – and once again with exceptional flare. The atmosphere and quality of light generates an intense visceral sense of being in a swamp, of exactly the intentions you state – the sense of sunlight burning off the mist, the sense of heat and humidity conveyed by the hanging mist, the color and textures of the plant life, the muddy stagnant water – all of it is spot on, right down to the focus of your image – the helmet. The helmet looks exactly how I would expect such a technological artifact would look if left many decades in a swamp. I don’t know what you could do to satisfy humungus – if we are to believe his words he has never experienced a synthetic smooth surface … like plastic. Even though we know humungus is sitting at his computer (its outer case largely made of exactly the same kind of artificial substance) humungus proposes that we are to believe that the notion of an artificial material that doesn’t break down in a natural environment is so alien to him … that it is literally beyond his comprehension. Are we to believe his words? I don’t. I could read your text and see your image and I had no difficulty integrating your thoughts with your image. It succeeds completely. I don’t know what would help humungus – perhaps a set of pictographs: Pictograph #1: Diagram of man holding helmet. With the word “Helmet” and arrow pointing to helmet. Pictograph #2: Diagram of man putting helmet on – Diagram of man taking helmet off. Pictograph #3: Diagram of “Helmet” with the Top, Sides, Front, Back, Bottom labeled and identified. Pictograph #4: Diagram of man holding helmet out – then dropping it in the murky water – annotated with the word “splash.” The trouble is, if we are to believe humungus, you would have to prove to him that in a gravity field things “fall down.” I am sure he would say the diagram didn’t convey to him the “feeling” of something falling down. As I said: I could read your text and see your image and I had no difficulty integrating your thoughts with your image. It succeeds completely and brilliantly. If I could rate this image higher than 5, I would – it is that exceptional. In fact it is a new favorite. Beautifully done my friend.

Fantastic work!

Nicely done! I like that hazy atmosphere.

A beautiful place to rest. But I don't think the helmet owner appreciates it

Amazing.

Very interesting and creative...nice job!

cool