Great series, perhaps some higher res versions are needed now, ex. 4K.

Bundle up, fill your flask, and hit the trail. This rendering is creative and seasonal. Reminds me of my days on the winter trail riding horseback and hiking. I look forward to returning to the riding and hiking after my post-op physio recovery.

Does anyone else notice some discoloration on each of the main trees on each side (right up front)??

Howdy _ details and colors of this country trail makes me yearn to saddle up and ride \Horseman LR

This is one of my favourite tree scenes

Just the classic nature and incredible artistry... Will there ever be a spring and summer treatment for this?

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...just like Christmas itself! Merry Christmas, Ryan, and Happy New Year!

I voted 4 for your original "bright" version, I didn't know there would be a re-work. This version is MUCH better, I would like to change my vote to 9.

It can't be said that you don't push the software hard...

I'm sure it will all come out good in the end? What? Too soon...? ;-)

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The thumbnail on the dual screen still shows the old "bright" version.

I really like the new renders of the multiscreen. Thank you.

I tried fiddling with it in Photoshop, but the new renders are much better than I could come up with. Thanks!

Look really nice now. Awesome all around.

Appears they fixed Fraps for desktop recording in recent builds. Works great now but the files are pretty darned HUGE. Of course I was recording at 60FPS and 1920x1080. Still, somehow, I think there is likely something better for what you want to do.

I have used Fraps for years, it's geared more toward games recording. The desktop recording leaves alot to be desired, IMO, but to each his own.

I believe the free program FRAPS does screen recording.

I believe the free program FRAPS does screen recording.

I believe the free program FRAPS does screen recording.

Appreciate it. :D

He is obviously on a Mac, I'm lost there. Might try starting out here: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html

Vlad @vladstudio.com has been doing this recently, creating a video of his desktop as he creates. His art doesn't thrill me much but it was interesting to watch the video (for a short while anyhow).

Hey Ryan, this is really great stuff. I was wondering if you could upload a video capture of you creating one of these pictures. I've watch similar videos on youtube but would love to see one of your images from start to finish just to see how you go about it.

To start, I really like this series. I do have to vote on it being "too bright", however. A possible solution to split the difference would be to do a clear-sky version so the light plays better, and an overcast/showy version to lend to it being a darker scene.



Keep up the great work!

Love images like this because it combines aspects of a dreary winter seen with a hopeful energetic quality. One of the talents you have compared to others by being able to successfully merge two different feelings into an image.



That's what makes your work so attractive. It's not so much the beauty or the realism, but the ability to invoke emotion and wonder by merely creating an image. It's what made classical artists great after all.

...it will be a real Christmas present. :) Looking forward to it.

The multi display renders look awful here... reminds me of when I first began gaming on my LCD and the brightness was set way too high. The single monitor looks awesome, something has gone awry with the 2 and 3 screen downloads I got.

A lovely scene, but I'm also in the "too bright" camp. The blue is a bit glaring and the purple and green in the trees offputting.

I like it a lot but like previous comments said - there seems to be a bug in the bottom right corner. Will it be fixed?

The link for the dual 16:9 5120x1440 is linking to the triple 16:9 7680x1440. The same problem exists for your Helios (2011).

That was so cool you forgave somebody that confessed to stealing your work.

The dual screen is unusable to me. It looks overexposed and really causes purple and green on the trees to stand out.

I love that dual screen version is brighter but it looks to me like the trees are purple and green? Maybe a little tweaking is in order even though I do love the brightness of the blue.

Looking forward to the dula screen version (3360 x 1050).



Keep up the excellent work. :)

Could you possibly make this into a 1600x900? Beautiful work as always.

Thank you for the suggestions, jlpilkin. I do have the home version of Photoshop, so I'll give it a try. Ryan, I can completely understand you not wanting to use your valuable time creating and posting different color variations of previous work. It would take away from creating new masterpieces here for us! :)

... would be some sort of way to link the related wallpapers. What I mean is something like an Elegy main which showed the day/night and seasonal variation thumbnails. And even show previous year's versions when you decide to recreate an image.



I realize that may be a significant software effort and non trivial, but it would be nice for those of us who enjoy your wallpaper series.

It would be cool if you added some birds as a finishing touch. You could get some more colors into the scene this way, (maybe red).

I hope it's not too late for the multi-screen renders, but when you start rendering the dual-screen version, would you be kind enough to make sure the focal point of the piece isn't in the center? The edges of the monitors would distract terribly.

If all you want is different color variations, you can always use Photoshop or any other photo editing software to create static images of most of the color variations in ChronoWall. There are a few image effects that are custom made, such as the Hue (preserve brightness), Colorization (which is different from Photoshop's) and Bloom effects (this can also be done in Photoshop but with more effort). You won't be able to enjoy having them slowly change color through different time intervals, though (without having to create several different color variations and numbering them sequentially, for each image). Not saying it's impossible to do without ChronoWall, but definitely time-consuming.

Also, ChronoWall does allow you to create your own groups with your own time frames, or better yet create what are called "on-demand" groups that you enable/disable on your own time. This would function similar to the way you set your wallpaper in the native Windows 7 Control Panel.

for the double post. And I didn't even hit "submit" twice. Oh, and "sections" should have been "selections." In case you were wondering. Sigh....

I couldn't help but notice that a LOT of your work is on ChronoWall, not that's there's anything wrong with that! :) Any possible way of getting some of the color variations without signing up for ChronoWall? With Win7 I can arrange my own sections and set it to any time frame I choose, which I like better than slooowly waiting for the time to change.

I couldn't help but notice that a LOT of your work is on ChronoWall, not that's there's anything wrong with that! :) Any possible way of getting some of the color variations without signing up for ChronoWall? With Win7 I can arrange my own sections and set it to any time frame I choose, which I like better than slowly waiting for the time to change.

Is there a possibility that you make an Elegy for every time of year? I love this wallpaper - I think it's one of my fav's of all time. The 3 versions are on shuffle on my background, it's great!

Very nice picture. I assume, based on the title, that you are thinking of doing an "Elegy (Winter/Night)" under a full moon. Now THAT would be a beautiful picture!

I Love the peaceful feeling this image illicits. Is that a small Fox or Bobcat just to the left of the large tree on the right side of the image? I like looking for the small life forms you sometimes embed in an image.

Ryan, Great work on Elegy Winter-Day. I love it. I especially like all of the winter details. Question...Will you do a Christmas rendition of Elegy?

Very pretty, although you can never get enough snow, maybe you could add more snow so there's a thick layer of snow on the ground and in the trees :-)

@Walo: You're not the only one who's asked. I just responded to an email to another DB Member who wanted a Mac version. There are enough requests to warrant it. It may take some time though, as I don't even own a Mac at all. It'll happen though. If for some reason I am not able to get a Mac to develop this in a reasonable amount of time, I can always share profits with a Mac developer.

@Chris B: Thanks for your support :) Glad you like the software - If you would like to see other options/features or encounter a bug, as always, please report them in the online forums.

@Ryan: Appreciate the comment! Reese's are my favorite candy.

I would gladly purchase your app if it came for Mac. I like to support the people who supports Ryan's art and your app seems to be amazing. Looking forward for a Mac version in the future.

You need to try Nutella & Peanut butter if you're going that rout lol



I like the day version, you can see all of the texture of the bark & the frosted grass & leaves. I don't know if it's possible, probably not with this many leaves but I got some awesome pics of a Japanese maple tree that had frosted ice crystals all around the edges of each leaf.

I decided to give chronowall a shot it really is awesome, all of the options. can take the fun out of which DB wallpaper do I feel like today, but I think I'll live ;) The amount of options are incredible lol Good choices of DB wallpapers too, esp Red & Gold :)

I do love that this one is daytime, though.

How 'bout a render with that dark overcast, blizzard look-n-feel?

And of course, Ryan, thanks for your help. I would have said thanks earlier, but I'm sure by now you are getting tired of hearing it. It's awesome that you advertised an image specifically for my product.

The daytime version of this looks great! One thing stands out, though that's bugging me. The snow on the bottom right of the screen looks warped and distorted. Is is supposed to look like that?



Other than that, the picture looks incredible. Looking forward to multiscreen.

This is gorgeous, but there's something about the light or the texture of the snow that seems a little off to me. I get a kind of uncanny valley feeling that I don't usually get with any of your nature scenes since about 2003. It could just be because I've never been in a forest like this after a snow storm. My wife tells me Elegy has a more east-coast style to it, whereas I've lived on the west coast most of my life.

Nice wintery feel to it. I wonder what is causing the red tint on the branches on the upper left corner?

I love it, and hope to use it, but I am noticing a bit of weirdness in the bottom-right corner. Almost like that area isn't quite done yet. Just seems a little too wavy, almost like the snow wasn't rendered on the underlying landscape.



But it is still beautiful! Keep up the wonderful work Ryan!

I love your winter scenes, and I was hoping you'd do Elegy in snow in daytime -- wonderful!

This is awesome. Love the bright whites and blue contrast. This is pretty much what I envisioned a daytime Holiday/Christmas scene to be (only without the holiday elements). The only nitpick would be the weird texture/geometry going on in the lower-right. If it wasn't for that, I'd give it a 10/10. Already added it to my winter group.