EMAIL: gailshaw@mweb.co.za
NAME: Gail Shaw
TOPIC: Loneliness
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Sometimes goodbye is forever
COUNTRY: South Africa
WEBPAGE: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~gail/
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.5
TOOLS USED:		Paint Shop Pro
			Vue d'Espirit 4 Demo
			Plant Studio
			UV Mapper
			PoseRay (obj to pov converter)

RENDER TIME: 1 day 5 hours
HARDWARE USED: Athlon 1GHz, 512 MB memory

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

I remember as though it were yesterday. "Au revoir." she said. "Don't worry." she said.
"It's just a two month tour, I'll be back before you know it"

Just a two-month tour round the outer observation posts. A war hero going to inspire 
the younger soldiers. Until the surprise attack. They tell me that she was responsible 
for holding the base long enough to get everyone else out. That she blew the base to 
prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

It's been five years to the day. Five long lonely years. The war is unfashionable now. 
Most people pretend it never happened. I'm the only one who comes here anymore. 

I wish I'd known when I said goodbye that I would be saying goodbye forever.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

Grass and nearby trees by Gilles Tran
Wall (barely visible) by Steven Pigeon
Most plants from plant studio
Rose created by Yahoo XFrog group

Can't really say much about the creation, I just built the image in parts, getting
one thing to look good before working on something else. Originally I had planned
to have a person in the scene, but the scene felt lonelier without him.

I've left the rose out of the zip as it was too big. Everything else should be in there