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Its a Bryce render with foliage post work using old and new Jungle 2D/3D stuff, but no photography. The background forest/brush canopy works pretty well. It's fairly photo-realistic.

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way kewl. Well done

Nice product there........;o)

Love the grasses in the forground, are they your own design?

BTW, it doesn't need a tree on the right, it will only serve to break the dynamics of your image. Nature isn't always symetrical, the diagonal lean of the tree creates movement, the viewer's eye travels up the tree over to the mountain then acros the water to your forground grasses which lean towards the tree, you see? Great image...

looks perfect the way it is. If you really feel it still needs something - maybe an old guy in a row boat fishing instead of another tree?

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Bikermouse, I was thinking of Vikki in something skimpy, be it lacy or shiny :)

Actually, I used to fish for halibut on Tomalas Bay, north of SF. The Sonoma hillsides as seen fishing from a boat look a lot like that.

Your mentioning of that also reminded me of that great Eakins painting of the skull rower. It's one of my favorites.

Dennis out.

I grew up in the bay area. A lot of the foothills between Berkley and Livermoore have that flavor to them. I can't remember the name of the pass we used to go over to get to Fresno on our many trips to visit my grandmother, but there was this one farm I looked forward to seeing each time we'd go, and I'd imagine that the surrounding hills were the shapes of giants buried in the landscape. - TJ

There was Niles Canyon out of Fremont or Hayward I think, but that was to Livermore. Altamont Pass was one to Fresno from Livermore.

Speaking of Livermore, my Uncle bought the old Livermore ranch in the '30's or '40s, which bordered the freeway on the way to said pass. The hills were mostly grasslands, but for the eucalyptus covered 19th century cemetary that bordered the ranch. I used to walk the grasslands as a boy, sometimes hunting jack rabbits with Mickey the beagle in the summer evenings. Fond memories those.

DigArts, Yes, thanks!! Hayward. We may be talking about the same place. If my memory were a little better I could place it more precisely, but since I fantasised as to what the view must of looked like from the farmhouse so often, my sense of direction is lost in the memory. There were what looked like eucyptus and an unpretentious farmhouse in a valley, the view from the freeway gave a fine overview. You were lucky to have had the opportunity to live there. That area is beatiful - if the freeway were't there it would be even better, but then the inspiration that area must have provided many a traveller might have ben lost. When I got old enough to drive, I soon discovered Panoche pass. There are farmhouses, wind mills and even old style barns on a winding and to this day two-lane road that would inspire even Norman Rockwell. - TJ

Your image is great just the way it is. See how it has inspired such fond memories? Great job.:)

Colette, Sre you saying that what is missing sometimes sparks the imagination? - TJ