===== From chris@bluelectrode.com: Sorry, too cliche-ish... ===== From YaelParis@operamail.com: no connection with the topic, no design, nothing ! Please by kind with Apple and show the capabilities of your Mac. ===== From whhale@nvl.army.mil: Are you the same person that does those City at night traces?? :-) ===== From tom@tomandlu.force9.co.uk: This doesn't work at all I'm afraid. ===== From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com: That's a good try, but it melts away ... Seriously, if you want to do something rather bare with only one object in the picture, you'd better work a lot more on that object and make it really look tremendously better than any object you may put in a multi object scene. One thing in that respect might have dramatically enhanced your image : the use of a height field for the snow rather than that plain plane. Strangely enough the effect would show more in the distance I guess. ===== From karl@pemail.net: Hmm - couldn't you have poked a few blades of grass through the snow ===== From albiaprime@aol.com: Technical - not particularly challenging techincally Artistic - great if you like abstract type art Theme - I have trouble picturing this as a garden ===== From file: what have the theme Garden to do with a simple water rendering ? Notable for composition