I kept most of the test renders to experiment with making a slideshow of it's creation. It showed me I rendered over 90 test renders.

I frame many of my images with a tree in the foreground, and since the primary use of the image is wallpaper, and majority of users icons run along the left side, I put the trees on the left.

In the spirit of Halloween I planned a goofy dance of skeletons, but it almost ended up creepy enough for a more serious category.

Not something you want to look up and see looking down at you. This would have been up yesterday, if I had come up with the name I liked sooner.

Silly penguins, if that's the sun setting on your right, that's not south.

Thank you Sydney for the winning name! I can't declare winner on Facebook because their rules distance themselves from contest liability.
I didn't know the definition of oracle included the knowledge & wisdom passed from an oracle, but now I realize the name fits perfectly.

I don't know what she sees in him, but I am jealous...

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 am back from an involuntary hiatus. A friend, his wife, and I bought and remodeled a building, starting a couple small businesses in two of the storefronts. If that sounds like a major time killer, it was. (Is)

You would think an image with all one color/material would be easier. But I apparently can't let it be easy. It did however end up like I originally envisioned.