Very nice! I must say I rather like the way the water looks in the
distance - you can get that kind of blurred effect in longer exposure
photographs.

Alternatively, a texture a bit like
http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/~bartz/Photos/usa/rainier.jpg would work. I
like the forground of this one where you can actually see the ripples, but
both in that photo and (in my experience) in pov-ray, you can start getting
odd pixels shining up bright at long distances, where the scale of the
detail is much smaller than the pixel resolution. A lot of antialiasing
might fix this though. BTW, google image search for "lake reflection" brings
up a lot of nice photos of how this kind of thing looks for lake surfaces of
various roughnesses.

I have a few other comments - it would be nice if the water was a bit
higher, so that the small plant by the water line in the foreground was
reflected more clearly. The trees in the background are also rather large,
it seems to me. Perhaps the top of the trees could be visable in the lake,
and some sky and scenery behind (a mountain?).

Very impressive overall though.

-Chris

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