This one has been sitting unfinished for a year, because the gray blast wave didn't like mixing with the fire, and kept crashing the computer. I figured out it would render once per loading of the image, only crashing the second attempt. So I reloaded after each test render, which let me finish.

I re-rendered this one 9 times before finally getting the effect I was looking for. All between 2 and 17 hours each, I feel I may be getting too critical.

Someone has been here before, or are they here now? The rocks surrounding the formation are reminiscent of a crowd gathering for some ancient ceremony.

An image to represent looming on the edge of disaster. Yet it still goes in the humorous category.

I filed this under objects, because this exaggeration of the moon goes a bit too far to be considered real world scenery.

A computer crash wiped this image out. Which turned out to be a good thing, because after recreating it, this version of the shark is much better than the original.

Can the dragon see the future in the crystal ball, or is it just watching the odd behavior of one of it's treasures?

Good lighting was a challenge, as all the complicated refractions in the face obscured the nose and other features.

This image holds the record for taking too long. Too many blurry reflections, too many scattered and reflected light rays to calculated.