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Spring's Life Force

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Hopefully it's warming up everywhere now that Spring has taken it's toll on us, except for the southern hemisphere...sorry guys. Anyway, I thought it would be wonderful to make an image depicting the life force that seems to come every spring after winter's seemingly long cold days have left us for a while. Life that seemed to have left comes back, the grass turns green, flowers come up, and warmer days are ahead. Hence the title of this image and the colors of what I think life on this earth are, blue and green. An image that looks a lot like this has already been shown here, if you remember my 8 Elements series. I think that this almost looks like the Elemental Power of Air that I created, but it's a bit different in the sense that it has that ice-like outside, with the "life force" blue in the middle, pushing it away. I used a lot of Dents, Radial Blur, Polar Inversion, and my new favorite, Radial Extruder for this image. Blend modes for this were a bi

100th Post

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Hey everyone and happy Throw Back Thursday! This is my 100th post on this blog, which is a huge milestone for me. I almost want to go out and celebrate this milestone and eat some ice cream or something, but we’ll see what happens. Anyway, I have decided that I would make this a special post and show you a bit of my accomplishments throughout the years. I have a compilation of a few of my favorite images (except the first one) I've made over the years to show how much I’ve grown and improved down below. Divided (Aug. '09) Cool Fire (Dec. '09) Underwater Fire (Mar. '10) Fire Jolt (Sept. '10) Jewel (Oct. '10) Ice Inversion (Nov. '10) Mystic Light (Feb. '11) Left Behind (Mar. '11) The Rush (Apr. '11) Mountain Horizon (Apr. '11) Blue Energy Stream (May '13) Portal Back Home (Jul. '14) Colors of Fall (Nov. '15) Elemental Power of Fire (Jan. '16