Good morning, Hoodoos!

[AndyWelder]

Found out the terrain features depicted in many of my recent renders are called "Hoodoos": It's the official name geologists use for these features. That name made me smile so now I created a scene with a more "cheery" feel. Hope you like it. Credit to Ade Levi (Terrade) for his Willow herb and Ulco (Dune) for his Heather.

[Kadri]

Nice Hoodoos

[inkydigit]

crazy cool Andy!

J

[AndyWelder]

Thank you, Kadri and Inky.

[Jo Kariboo]

Nice and mysterious !

[mhaze]

Excellent. Love the back lit mist/dust.

[Hannes]

I love the texturing of the hoodoos.
A little bit of nitpicking: did you check "receive shadows from surfaces" in the mist layer? If not, I'd like to see how it looks.

[AndyWelder]

Thank you, you two. About the nitpicking: You're absolutely right! Now that you mention it I don't understand why I missed that.  Will give it a rerun with "receive shadows from surfaces" enabled.

[Hannes]

Cool! Looking forward to it.

[TheBadger]

they almost have a personality! I sorta get that it would be easy for people to attach supernatural mythos to these kinds of places even in this day and age. Actually it is pretty understandable I think.

Really cool series, and nice work. I enjoyed the other images in the other threads too.

[yossam]

I like this a lot.................like Hannes, wanna see it with receive shadows enabled. 

[bobbystahr]

great image Andy, and the .jpg title gave me a chuckle as well.

[AndyWelder]

great image Andy, and the .jpg title gave me a chuckle as well.

Now that mention it...! OMG ROFL!

[AP]

Just fantastic structures.   

[AndyWelder]

Here's the version with "receive shadows from surfaces" enabled. No spectacular change or a very prolonged render time either.