Life's A Beach

Practice piece created in Blender 2.63 and post-processed in GIMP 2.6. The scene was rendered using Blender Cycles, the first time I've used it. Despite the lack of volumetrics, I have to that I'm impressed with the engine. So much so that I finally feel like I've produced something worthy of public display

The sand texture is by ~hhh316 and can be found here [link]

Image is copyrighted (c) 2012 by Karl Tangen (ie me). No permission is given to use, alter, or redistribute this work.