Hey all!
Today I believe GOD wants me to share a render and creative error on my part. I didn't ask for GOD's input on this and this is what happens when we don't, hahaha!
Back-story. As you all know, I am working on matching images for the sonnets from the 4 seasons. This one, is for the first sonnet of Winter. While quite a challenge to make a scene like this work, I thoroughly felt the challenge and wanted to through a tantrum. I wanted to add snow to the scene in the form of halo's. I believed for some reason, they carried shadows. Not so,...really not so, haha.
I found quite quick they were not gonna work for snow and so I went on to add a very simple sphere and made that be my snow flake. Didn't work... at all, hahaha!
Check it out:

yikes! lol
Obviously, this already contains the snow textures, but after I finished those, GOD insisted I render this out to and I believe it is to show how far off base we get when we don't get HIS input. I don't typically have this kind of problem. I usually go through many adjustments, but the method is always right, until today when I wanted to do it my way, lol.
Anyway, here is what it should look like:

Much better!
I was happy with the result I got here. It's all very plain and what not, but I really like it. I would like the tree to be better, but re-mesh makes it more high-poly and leaves it full of holes, hahaha.
Hope you all enjoyed this and got blessed by the message to "In all thy ways acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy paths" (
Proverbs 3:6 KJV).
Thank YOU!!!!!!