Loved - Never Forgotten

2005

Australia has some unusual juxtapositioning of things. After taking photos of rocks, I used Terra Painter to create a surface map with a lot of flat areas. I opened it up in Terragen and did some sculpting to get the rocks where I wanted them with the sun rays shining down. I used one of the rock photos as a surface texture and sat in church wondering and praying about what to put in the spotlight. I thought a flower might work. As I drove home I saw a single red flower growing on the side of the road. I went home and got my digital camera. I took a number of shots and then moved the grass away from the base. As I did the petals fell off. The timing was perfect. I had captured the flower just in time. A wild poppy fitted in perfectly with what I wanted to say in this image. I took the rendered image into Photoshop and joined 3 photos so as not to have any foreshortening in the flower stem.