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.

Another beach scene, probably the best so far. I like beach scenes on my desktop, so don't expect this to be the last.

This one took so long to render that I skipped all post editing. I normally make some minor adjustments.

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.

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 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.

Mathematically generated Fractal flame image. A dual screen version of this will soon be available, that has the other wing on the second monitor.

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.

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 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)