The tonal depth and colour of the forest is spot on. The river is realistic in its texture and colour and the composition is great. How long did it take you to construct this and how many trees didi you end up putting in the scene? It would be interesting to see the raw image before the Photoshop touch-ups.

Wonderful landscape and atmosphere!

Excellent forest work. Heck, excellent work all round :)

To answer Turin_Returns questions, this one took several days work. The Bryce portion took maybe three days, and I spend about another two in Photoshop. The Bryce image has most all of the elements, but alone it just isn't a finished product. As far as trees go, I usually put from a couple dozen to a hundred or so if the scene calls for it. When I use that many most are Bryce trees in the background. The foreground trees are all built from multiple elements and take quite a while to get right. There is usually only a few of those. Basically when you get tired of working on a scene, your only just beginning, patience to keep going until each piece looks right is the main ingredient. Like all of you, I find that by default, what Bryce does is just not realistic enough, so you have to force it to look the way you want. Luckily, Bryce has such a vast array of options for modeling and texturing, that there is always another way to tweak the outcome. When that isn't enough, there is always Photoshop.

I must say, the forest IS exceptional in this one. No matter how many times I've seen them I never get tired of your pics. --- Mogrel Pocksquid