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From sshaw@fas.harvard.edu:
I took a look at the page for the orbiter, and found no fault with your recreation of the pod (other than perhaps colors and finishes; it didn't seem to me that it was that reflective).

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From jerry@hoboes.com:
Very nice sky and earth background! The mountains could probably use more work, they look a bit  "meshy", or too geometric.
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From gregj56590@aol.com:
Excellent composition, but image is too obviously or crudely "raytraced".
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From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de:
Quite a nice setting, but what might be the burner flame seems more like glass
sphere that's dissolving towards the left.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Good sense of solitude.

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From davidwilkinson@cwcom.net:
Very current history! I like the focus on the gondola, but the mountains don't
come out too well.

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From ethelm@bigfoot.com:
Nice image, topical as well as on topic.

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From 101741.541@compuserve.com:
Overall good composition, camera tilt is appropriate.  
There
is some confusion between the mountains and the 
bottom of
the balloon.

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From peter@table76.demon.co.uk:
1999 as history - well, why not :-) ?  Yesterday is now history after all.