Very well done! Looks very quiet and still and reminds me of treks I've taken through the forest. 45 trees in the scene must have really slowed your computer down!

a+ image. excellent

This is fantastic, hardly looks like Bryce, but more lie a photo. Kudos all around...

Really nice. I like the texture on the tree in the foreground. Has an "oil painting" feel to it. Well done.

ultimative winter feeling. very good atmosphere.

looks great, i like the lights very much. How long did it take you to get the picture, the whole project i mean. I really like it a lot.

Great rework!! It does have a very photo-realistic quality.

Very photo-realistic look. Putting a deer back in the trees would be really cool. Nice work...

OutSTANDing! Great work! I thought it would have been a different application. Was very happy to see it was Bryce.

Mazette !!! superb, very realistic;

Thank you, all, for your very kind words. --- For "vaha" (and everyone else interested) some notes on the technique etc.: The entire work took about 4 hrs. to complete, incl. many patch renders to check some textures, positioning etc. The render was a little heavy, due to the volumetric light: 3,5 hrs. (render options were with standard antialiasing, and NO gamma correction). File size 24,3 mb. By far the most complicated thing in this work was the volume light, in the end, I managed to get some OK lightstreaks (but nevertheless, I wasn't too satisfied, that's why I reworked it). --- The large trunks are actually a terrain, where I've placed a tree inside a few of them - for instance you can see some roots sticking out on one in the upper left area. I knew this could happen, but I decided that they looked like branches, alternatively I could have scaled the tree down a bit. The other trees are Bryce trees, designed in the tree lab, 10 - 15 min. of tweaking until I got it "right". --- In my experience, Bryce trees are not that "power-consuming", and my computer is NOT a powerful one. Unless I "overdo" the complexity, I can easily handle, say 60 - 80 trees, before my computer starts to drag. --- The postwork in Photoshop was: 1) Blending the snow a bit up on some of the trunks (rubberstamp). 2) "Unsharp Mask" to kill some of the Bryce antialiasing. 3) Adding extra volumetric effect by using a lens flare. 4) On a duplicate layer, I used "gaussian blur" at a high setting, then blended this layer with "lighten" blendmode, opacity set to 50% - all of this to achieve a soft appearance. Then I flattened the image, saved and exported for web... this postwork took about 20 min. - much faster than tweaking the volume light some more and then render again! I still consider this a true Bryce render, as the postwork was mainly to enhance what was there in the first place - except the snow-work on the trunks, that's a little cheating ;o) I hope you find this note useful. Thanks again for your attention to my work.

excellent!!! keeping the crisp shadows was a perfect idea. Gives it a cold, but windless and bright sun feel. the trees are exceptional!

Fantastic use of light and colours.. gets me in the real, danish christmas-mood! :) 10+