Posted on August 28, 2006

• I’ve added an updated version of “Flight of the Hammerheads” this morning. Quite a few of you felt that the render I posted yesterday was too dark and commented that the silhouette view of the sharks lent them a 2D appearance. I’ve lightened things up ever so slightly so you can see the 3D contours on the sharks and a little more detail on the ocean floor. Yesterday’s version remains in the Pickle Jar. Which do you prefer? The image with the higher rating after a week will remain in the gallery.
• I added an RSS feed for the free gallery yesterday and created a page with widgets which allows you to add the feed to your favorite web based feed aggregator. Here is a version of the page for the members gallery feed. I would recommend that all members subscribe to the Members Gallery feed (rather than the Free Gallery feed) to stay up to date on the newest additions to the gallery and other news.
• Some of you have asked for an update on Jason. He’s three months old now and growing steadily. He get cuter every day (in my biased opinion). Here’s a pic.

Posted on August 27, 2006

• Added a reworked version of “Flight of the Hammerheads” to the gallery this morning. The original Bryce render from 1999 can be seen here. The original was always one of my favorites and I think it worth revisiting. I hope you like it!

  I posted this one in the “Day Scenery” gallery, but will move it to its own “Underwater” section if I create another marine image this year.

Posted on August 20, 2006

• Added multi-monitor versions of “Serenade” to the gallery today.
• We celebrated Ian’s third birthday yesterday (here he is blowing out his candles). Hard to believe it’s been three years already. He starts preschool this week!

Posted on August 17, 2006

• My new machine arrived yesterday and I’ve been working non-stop to move all of my essential tools over. I’m also finding out the hard way that some of my software and hardware just won’t work with Windows XP 64. I guess I will have to adjust my ways.

  On the upside, the machine is a real screamer. My latest wallpaper, “Serenade”, took over 20 minutes to render on my old machine. The new machine renders it in under 5 minutes. Happy me! The render is up on the new images page for your review.

Posted on August 15, 2006

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