Problems with a new video card not wanting to handle complicated images, had me change to new subjects 4 times. I rushed to replace the broken one without doing enough research.

Didn't get to an ocean beach this summer. Swam in a lake, boated on a river, but it's just not the same.

My PC updated to Windows 10, and it seemed to go flawlessly until trying to run the scripts to setup this image. Permissions were easy to fix, but an unused mysterious missing font turned out to be the thorn in the watermarking script.

Keep your treasures safe.

An actual 3d fractal flame, hovering over an ocean. It's actually a composite of 3 renders, one of the 3d fractal, one of an ocean at the same angle, and a 2d version of the fractal used to cast reflections in the water.

I was trying to rush out the door for a business trip, but had to wait for this one to finish rendering.

This image rendered for three days on 4 computers before crashing, and losing all the work. I rendered again at wallpaper sizes only, just to get it online. I may never try rendering a commercial version of this one again.

It might be sunset, or later in the evening, hard to tell time by the sun, when it just circles around the horizon all day.

This is in the Fantasy category, as it isn't based on a real place. It is reminiscent of trees growing on granite in Yosemite, but the domes there look nothing like these leaning stones.