I've had several requests to continue my onyx table series, which works rather well with this magic lamp I created in Amorphium.

The memory of a beautiful scene tends to exaggerate the key points, trees are taller, valleys are deeper, vistas are wider, and the moon is bigger. I used a telescopic photo of the moon to get more detail.

Heat waves recreated by placing a wavy glass texture in front of the camera point.

This one went through several settings, and two horses before I finally had a finished image I was happy with. The horse was created in Poser, but I did a bit of tweaking, as I wasn't fond of the default horse.

The day I finally win the lottery... I thought the toughest part of this one was going to be the impact point, but it turned out to be the easiest.

I worked on lighting this one for several hours. I finally ended up with lighting similar to what I started with, the trick was to keep the pinkish mist from affecting the light inside the dome.

The valley and balcony were rendered in two separate 3d programs, and assembled in Photoshop

This turned out to be much more difficult than I thought. I wanted it to be a view from inside an ant hill, looking down several tunnels at once. But since you can only point the camera one direction at a time I had to opt for a more cavernous approach.

This came about after seeing my previous Dolphin from a camera angle above the water. It gave me this idea, which came out quite nice. (It is the same water, with a new sky, and without the light gel.)