been busy, but here's a low quality render of the cactus with better lighting, which might be just a little too much light on it, but not by much. Also working on getting rays in the image, but they have to be just right or it won't work. I'd love to have them on the right side only, but I don't think it's possible without doing a render with and without rays, then compositing them in Photoshop. I've also done a little bit of work on the sand, it's more varied now in it's appearance as far as the colors go. Also, what about some stars??