Lovely the composition, and whatever torture you performed, it works well!

I see a river delta ... :)

Rocks rock!Back to the Stone Age! Get back soon, Mark.

Ya know what.... it really DOES look like an aerial view. I was just studying the map of the Red River Valley, noticing the huge basin left by the ancient lake. This art work is quite similar. You can see the rugged terrain and the depths of the caverns. There are smooth surfaces too where the water must have cascaded and smoothed out the rough spots. Of course, the colors indicate the heat sensitive areas. Very well done!!

I see my favorite swimming hole, the big, round warm rock I lie on, and a world of peace and quiet. Have a good week and we'll see you when you get back.

You are an artist. An amazing one. 5+.

And I see a landscape in bird perspective :) Beautiful image in super vibrant colors and texture. :)

I enjoy how you achieve such a sense of perspective with this style.

fine image, mark.

Have a safe journey Mark and return when you can as you and your art will be missed. This one is splendid as the idea you took on for this image really gave you a chance to be super creative. This arial view is filled with so much color and detail that it makes it such a pleasure to view. Love the way you included what looks like worn areas as well as a lot of ridge detail.

Very nice image. Great colours! Really nice artwork!

I'm going swimming here right now!

Excellent effect - nice work

Great composition. Excellent colors and image!!

Extruded basalt crystal column in the upper left corner:) Great profusion of color and textures. Like it very much!

A REALLY 3D MAP.Magical contrasts of colours and textures.Deep and sweet.The blues are the most attractives, BUT my eyes have fixed on a blue point in the midst of the image and i see everything growing from there. I like it very much.

Lovely work!!!

Yes, you will be missed. Very vibrent and 3d. I se rocks from above. Great work, Mark

lovely,creative and colorfull Mark 5*

Well another great merciless torture in photoshop it is! You are too modest grat vibrant colours and textures reminds me of palette knife work apart from the colours would be impossible to reproduce with normal paints..

Oh my. My focus is always pulled to a particular place in your compositions it seems..and this one brings no exception, thankfully. I see a bird, a symbolic bird, with an extraordinarily long tail feather, so prefer to interpret as your soul flying, until it happened on this earthen view from far above. Rocks..bring them on, please. I'm a rockhound at heart, always seemingly honing in on a particular energy from them, careful and mindful of their associations and representations. And, while I'm growing older, I hope to never lose the childlike wonder I always feel when I encounter them. Your post has ignited, rekindled, a spark, one which I obviously desperately need in the creative realm these days, Mark. So, abundant thanks. I think I'll revisit a long-ago series I'd begun on mineral representations. Big hug for focusing me back to a place where I find such peace and happiness. Safe journey. Come back to us safely, and a little more whole even than you were before it. It should always be this way with journeys, no matter the reason for them.. Lovely, lovely work, of course. Expansive..and free.

its amazing how different you are, its amazing how different each one of us is! there are worlds to discover between us all. looking at others art is the finest way of education i can think of. its a joy and so, i look at this in awe, asking me, what is going on there in mark's laboratories, what keeps him doing his work the way he does :) this is all a wild adventure on its own :) have a great time off, mark, take care!

Beautiful...

Striking colour and form! I love the broken nature of the textures.