Very nice indeed. As you request for comments, here are mine:
- You should definitely think about more realistic clouds, with a real 
volume and a dark bottom, like real clouds.

- I don't like the grainy aspect of the sea near the horizon, in real 
world you would have a heat fog hiding that, maybe you can try softening 
it with a thin ground fog so that the first plan sea remains clear.

- I like the distant flock of birds and fish in the shadow ideas

- The butterflies seem to be all in the same position with wings open at 

(I'm not quite sure about this remark though, because the resolution is 
not high enough, maybe we need a closeup)

JC

Tek wrote:
> This scene must be nearing completion; every time I try to add something I get
> about a dozen versions that look worse!
> 
> I spent a couple of hours moving the camera to get this view right now it's at
> poster proportions (including playing with a vertically oriented poster),
> eventually I decided this was best. Then I spent a while trying different things
> to occupy the big empty space on the right of the picture: a big splash of water
> (which was going to have a dolphin jumping out of it)? after about an hour
> experimenting I concluded it was going to shift the focus too much, a sharks
> fin? well that drew the eye, and looks silly.
> 
> After all of that I decided I needed a seagull, which took a whole evening to
> build (it's made from blobs). It looks pretty good but I'm not sure about the
> angle we're viewing it from, is it too hard to tell what it is?
> 
> Anyway, I personally think this is an improvement over v3, but only slightly.
> I'm starting to think it's nearly finished (or as finished as it's going to
> get), so I'll add a few more little details and then call it finished. I'm
> thinking I'll add a distant flock of birds, and some fish swimming in the shadow
> of the fractal.
> 
> But of course I'm open to suggestions for what to add, and any criticism of
> what's already there. What do you think?
> 
> (BTW, apologies to those of you with low res monitors, but I really wanted to
> keep the detail in this image!)
> --
> Tek
> http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> 
> 
>

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