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		© 2002 A scene of pure imagination. Late afternoon in an autumn forest, where the sky and the trees are frozen in the reflection of a dark pool of water. I do not have the luxury of the "Tree Lab" of Bryce 5, so the trees were created in XFrog 3.5 and imported into Bryce 4.0. The ground consists of at least 7 terrains and the autumn leaf piles were created with 60-odd flattened spheres and small terrains with scanned images of autum oak leaves mapped onto them. Positioning the camera and lighting the sky took a long time to get the best possible reflection in the pool. The pool is the center of the composition - almost a world within a world. I drew a lot of imspiration from the minimalist Japanese woodcuts of the later 19th century whose unusual compositions and juxapositioning of image elements is quite unique to the Japanese culture, which I greatly admire. A full size version is available (1024 X 1365 - 193Kb)