Nice work!

Fantastic scifi!!!

A very interesting work to me very well like, thanks also for the information about that. Have nice Sunday

very great

Outstanding sci-fi scene my friend, excellent work.

This is so much cooler when in zoom mode as the details just pop!

Wowzers! ")

Very neat lighting effects

I'm looking forward to doing more writing with you! :) The floating trees are a compelling idea. Details are what make things real, and they're a great bit of atmosphere. I'm sure by the end of whatever this story is, we'll know why the trees go off on their own travels. Your images have a way of hooking me in. Nice work!

Great scene. Excellent sci-fi imagery.

Very nice image, love that atmosphere :)

Very good sci-fi scene.

Fantastic sci-fi image! Beautifully done!

stunning render!!!!!!!!!!!

Really like the sun shining through the floating island...great scifi image Craig!

When I came back last week, I was going to go to your gallery the first night, because you were one of the few I'd not gotten to the previous visit. But when I came here, I decided to wait for the end, because your images really ask me to reflect, and I want to sit and 'think' with you. So I'm here tonight, probably my second-to-last night before I leave again. As I've probably said before, I look at everything as it goes up---I just don't comment those times (because I comment way too long in my favorite galleries---of which yours is one). But I'm here now...so here goes. I start at the end of last year with this strange, wild, and very enticing vision. I've seen that you've been exploring light inside dark environs, and night light itself. (There was an image, one or two before this, where you said that you said that outright.) Your Vue work comes closer, to me, to tackling photographic challenges than almost any other Vue I've seen: Not because these are nothing else---they're very elaborate visions from your heart and mind. But because you tackle very photographic problems---here, extreme light and lots of dark shadow. And that contrast, here, is not only clear as a bell, but stunning. In fact, "clear as a bell" is more fitting than one realizes. As a scientist, maybe you've seen the breakdown of frequencies in a bell---especially a church bell. One of the reasons church bells evoke ominous and 'ancient' feelings in us is that they emit many pitches at once, each deeply resonant, and all coming at us with different intensities, volumes, etc. In other words, like a set of deep calls from a vast distance. (Of course we pick out one or two pitches and identify them as the 'character' of the bell, if not its root pitch: But, as I'm sure you know, there are a number of pitches blasting out of those massive metal beasts, so we're really hearing chords or clusters.) So "clear as a bell" should mean clear but multifaceted. Lots of things going on very clearly, in other words. And that's what I see here. (Boy that was a long intro! If you want your money back, lemme know...) 2/3 of this image is sunken in shadow: across the mountains, across much of the water, and in the silhouettes flying in the air. By contrast, the top third is a blasting pink-peach hued thing, almost sandy in tone; and the contrast with the shadow is stunning. (Clarity of more than one thing, like those bell pitches.) But then you have the floating stations, bits of earth and trees in the air (colonies maybe?) and a space ship: All dark, yet all razor sharp in their clarity. With the camera, it has been the challenge for years to get cameras to record sharp detail in low light---without GRAIN (the villain of low light). I assume you don't get grain in Vue, unless you compress the image too much; but what you have to do to get clarity, in shadow I don't know: I assume it's real work, finesse and care. The trees on the floating earth---on the far right? What fine clarity in the branches against the sky. Everything here is razor sharp, even the station and earth-clump faded by light. And then the water, the island, the strata in the mountains, etc, and the various cloud forms in the sky: Beautifully sharp, clear in line, shape and hue. So with all these distinct shapes, etc, is there unity? Yes. And I don't know how. It just feels like the image is bonded by those peach-rust tones, by their interactions with the water, by shadows filled with sharp detail, by the proliferation of things in the sky---it has a repeated rhythm and tonal unity that's just there throughout. And here's the hardest part: Care. Care would be one of the genuine stylistic features of your work: It's a sense of care in how you compose your visions, of how you delineate space, how you articulate detail and space out the entities in the sky, etc. It seems to be made by someone who brought love and care to the table. And with that, a sense of grace, play and fun. And of course, beauty. I think it's beautiful. And, like a bell, it rings. Beautiful work Craig. And calling out for a story too...