I am a developing artist working on improving my abilities to create beautiful digital landscape compositions. Without the help and suggestions of the many fellow artists in this community, it would be a long time before I reach the next level.
BIO
I am a retired procurement professional who has long had an interest in photography and painting; and, lately in computers and photorealistic natural landscapes. I hope to become more proficient and perfect my abilities to produce acceptable work. My experience in art started at a very early age when I would spend many hours sketching and painting. I had instruction at The Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois. I did some freelance work for Flying Models, Model Airplane News and Top Flite Models creating plans and illustrative construction sequences for magazines and kit models. I had spent more than 20 years designing, building and flying radio controlled model airplanes...a very rewarding hobby for me. During the 1970s, I spent 11 years in the hobby of "bonsai"; the Japanese art of miniature trees. In my first 7 tree entry in a contest, all 7 trees were awarded ribbons in various categories. Japanese landscaping became a passion for me where I completed a 3 year project creating a Japanese landscape around my home in Oak Forest, Illinois. I also did this work for several other people in our community. In 1987 I moved to Phoenix, Arizona where I currently make my home. The love of the American southwest and all its beauty is where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. Now that we have computers, digital cameras; and, Terragen; I'll have enough to do for a long, long time.
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Comments (26)
ledwolorz
Excellent work.
stboettcher
cool, very impressive work!
kenwas
Excellent!
Juliette.Gribnau
outstanding ! F
RBlue
Love desert living! I live in the Mojave desert. Always like the desert renders! Straight into the Favorites folder!
Petra-S
Fantastic image!
EoinArmstrong
Super later-afternoon lighting; excellent realism here!
Thelby
Hey-HEY Bob, you got something Special Here Buddy. This is really Fantastic. How many plant varieties is that 5, Super Cool, I Love this!! Glad to some really Great TG2!!! 10+++
Coppens
Superb realism here! Marvelous soft lighting! Excellent job, Bob!
artgum
Superb realism; that desert is alive! A perfect terrain and plant populations Bob. This is an awesome render.
Maori
This looks very familiar to me Bob. Excellent realism and beautiful work as always!!!
stbc
You got to see the area to understand how close this is to the real thing. Excellent work, Bob, surely a labor of love. Superbe, especially the distribution, colors of the soil and the rocks!
kanzler
Great desert render.Very beautiful vegetation and little stones!
Dotthy
excellent realism Bob, I love the plants and textures. Very realistic atmo also!!!!!!!!!!!
Tangled-Universe
Amazing work Bob! Everything seems to work fine together. Very nice colors and great use of different plants. Also like the streaky cirrus.
superza
Great image! like the distribution and the variations, great one!
carlx
Wonderful scenery and desert mood!!! Excellent terrain, lighting and atmo, too!!!
CATMANDO
Fantastic work. It looks real.
MarkusVogt
very nice vegatation integration, that´s the kind of land you are living ?...it must be a wonderful place, wish i could be there...
Ionel
Very very well done, Bob! Superb view and light!!!
WeeLaddie
Nice desert foliage work, Bob. I might have planted less instances of the Saguaro cacti as T2 can only resize and rotate to give the appearance of variation (unlike Vue which can generate unique instances of a given plant) and in such a simply structured plant as this it's easy to see that an individual specimen has been replicated.
Rich2
Lots of your thought and hard work went into this one, Bob - and it paid off very nicely! Brings back memories of when I last rollled throught there!
fractalinda
Realistic and beautiful scene. Excellent work, Bob.
bebert
YEAH !!!! a splendid "shot", BOB !! Bravo!!
jrdesigns
Very realistic desert scene!! Great job!
DukeNukem2005
Impressing and very interesting work of art!