This picture is a little unusual in that it has longer history than the others in my gallery. When I first became interested in digital art, I was keen to do some illustrations for stories I'd written and a similar image to this one was one of the first things I did using Bryce. This was before I joined Renderosity and I never posted those very early efforts here (I wasn't entirely satisfied with them). But the other day, I thought I might have another go at the same scenes using Vue and having learned a bit more... So here is an image of Fer-Verrilah from a (long) "short" story I once wrote called "The Galactic Tourists". In the story, the planet of Fer-Verrilah is a small, dense world with a large moon and a narrow world girdling equatorial ocean which separates two desert hemispheres to north and south. It is remarkable for its green skies, these being caused by a combination of the spectral qualities of its sun and an unusually regular and fine dust which permeates the upper atmosphere and changes the frequency of Rayleigh scattering. Fer-Verrilah is a sparsely populated planet on the edge of the Confederacy with only a few mining settlements in the deserts and some small coastal towns, mostly on the northern rim of the ocean which are connected by The Road, a very crude world circling track. The native "flake people" act as guides to the tourists in the story, taking them into the deep painted deserts. I wanted a churning green sea with foam topped waves which I utterly failed to create in Bryce. This is a better effort inspired by materials in the Sea Vue package available at 3D commune (but modified quite a bit by me). Although I haven't made a picture that looks exactly as I imagined Fer-Verrilah (I think I could probably still improve on the sea) this is not too far away...