"Quercus" wrote:

Wow, man, you're being hard on me... Chrome was not chrome,
natural fractal is not fractal... snif :-(

I didn't mean to be hard on you. In fact, you were in a close race
for 2nd place until I eventually gave that position to N Lindan.
See, here's your third place ribbon: (3)==***

I had the doubt with the chrome one, but I must disagree with
this fractal thing. The leaves are not made up of oblong
patterns; I was looking, in fact, the whole branch :-) If you
pay attention the whole set of leaves has an oblong form (sort
of, at least), similar to the oblong form that has each little
branch on the sides of the main "trunk", and similar itself to
the shape of every single leave... That's where I see the
fractal, may be only in my eyes anyway...

You make a good point. I've re-instated 4 points from the 5 point
deduction. Can't say I'm not a flexible grader!

About the green and blue... I know some people that think like
your mom, but I just don't see why blue and green are supposed
to not going together, they are everywhere in nature and they
feel fine there.

I agree 100%. I like the combination.

I'm glad that you like the shadows and the lack of them, it was
a risky bet for me, as I was not sure if I liked that effect, or
not. So I chose to take the picture and decide later... And I'm
still thinking
:-)

No need for further thought here. I like it.

Thanks for your comments, I'll try to catch a no-doubt-one for
the timing mandate for you ;-)

-Quercus-

Looking forward to it.

P.S: I'm pushing my limits with english in these comments, so I
hope I'm explaining myself in a correct way.

You're not "pushing it" at all. I'd say your writing is better
than 90% of Usenet posters whose mother tongue is English. And in
case there's any doubt, you have way more than enough English
writing skills to submit your own SI review. If nothing else,
doing so would be a good way to 'get even' with me.