Great job on this one. It looks very like like. Well done.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Russ

Beautiful... I love the scale of this scene.

....and Wow! Very well composed - The vastness pulls me into the photo.

The atomosphere is outstanding, im going to take a guess and say you were playing around with the new Vue clouds and infinite terrains :P

Were you hang gliding while you took this. What a beautiful scene, very well done. Perfect composition.

Thanks for the comments everyone.

To GunnerMan, it was done in Vue 6, but not by playing around. I spent a lot of time and effort on it and then waited 87 hours for my antique G4 to crank out the 1800 x 1200. I have Vue 7 Esprit fully installed, but it won't run. Same for Vue 7 Pioneer Beta - they're both completely unstable on machines running OS 10.5.6. I'm not happy about the situation, but I've sent crash reports to Apple and I know e-on software is working on a fix.

Wonderful creation and me thinks it is well worth all your effort! Sorry to hear about Vue 7 not wanting to work.

Happy holidays.
Gabrielle

WOW

I think you might have misunderstood, by playing around with, I usually mean "using." I in no way was trying to imply that it looked like you cranked it out in 10 minutes to see what the tools could do. It is amazing the cloud work you did. You are really good with the atmospheres.
I heard Vue 7 was having lots of problems with the Apple versions, I hope they get it fixed soon. I just asumed you were using Vue 7 because your terrains do look so infinite and far away and the cloud work again is stunning.

Yo, Russ.... Breathtaking realism here! I downloaded Vue 7 - - the Pioneer beta version - - the other day, but am still working primarily with Vue 6 Esprit. Seems each version requires more and more RAM and render times gets longer and longer. This piece rocks, Russ! Wen

I just got this in the booth & my first reaction was a serious jawdrop. This is amazing !!! Jawdroppingly beautiful & so incredibly lifelike. An amazing render & I'm stunned it took 87 hours to render, but it was well worth the wait. What a beauty ! A definite fave for me & Wendy's right.... this piece rocks.

Thank you for all for the kind and thoughtful comments. Once and awhile I manage to create a piece that doesn't make me cringe later. The positive feedback will help keep me on track to do better work in the future. Once again, thanks.

Well when you look back and cringe at least you know you are learning something. It's all in good fun.

Quite possibly the best render I've ever seen - the realism is awesome - faved

This is absolutely beautiful. I feel like I am on top of the world. Very realistic image.

Jimbob

you could sit and look at this one all day. wonderful creation.

wonderful shot!!!!! excellent

Exceptional Atmosphere my friend! Wonderful crystal clear render!!

Wowwwwwwwwww!!!Perfekt!!!

Amazing! I wish I had the money for these programs, but I guess I'm stuck with unregistered Terragen for now. :(
Great work though, you can SEE the effort you put into this, and I like that.

A vanishing point vortex. Well thought about all exept the comment. I would change your id pic to go in conjuction with stuff like this.

Fantastic art, wonderful complexity and textures.

Catching up with my faving again... I tend to take my time deciding which to fave (notices date of post and coughs with embarrassment). But yours get through no problem. :-) This one has a soft, creamy feel to the clouds; the blues are realistic and the detail has a distant, majestic feel. I don't think I would sleep for a week if I'd come up with an image like this... gorgeous.

i find your photo is WONDERFUL