A still life arrangement of Poppies, I expected this to render without the difficulty of some of my more complex images, but it turns out the hairy stems using complex displacement maps to create the hair, never rendered he way the preview versions did.

All ready to upload this, and then nearly lost it to what appeared to be a dead computer, but it turned out to be a bad AVG virus checker update, not letting Windows run.

I put off images that give me trouble, switching back to a previous problem child. I switched back to this one which accepted my tweaking much better this time.

Here is the image I happened to be finishing up on Earth day. An uncorrupted river snaking through a forest.

I started the candle last year for a holiday image, but didn't finish in time. I almost forgot about it.

On the edge of the giant mushroom plateau, watching the moon rise. Got all the way to uploading this before noticing one of the mushrooms didn't light up. I had to remake 1/3 of the image.

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.

Normally I don't do images with alternate versions, but I liked both version of this one too much to drop one. A link to the other is on the wallpaper page, above the image.

Normally I don't do images with alternate versions, but I liked both version of this one too much to drop one. A link to the other is on the wallpaper page, above the image.