Above the Rest

I'm back and not making a fuss about it! I'm VERY angry with this image and with my stupid PC. This whole project took an agonysing 2 weeks to finish. In the end it was a battle with my own patience and with my PC, who reffused to help me, by crashing 20 times a day. What you see now as the final result is actually the third version of the same concept, and my PC is fully responsably for making it happen, by corrupting 2 other versions of this project-something 3 days' work in total...
Enough with my complaints, let's see some things about the image...

CONCEPT:
-it's a personal approach on an idealized representation of a place for mental and spiritual recreation.
-for a better understanding of this image you should consider knowing:
-the climate is subtropical
-the sun gloriously shines from the left as it goes behind the hexagonal rock formations that cover a huge area of land
-the hex-shaped rocks have an average height of 20 meters(~60 feet)
-there are some paths at ground level, through the tall rocks (I think I'll make this path thing materialize into an image sometime)

TECHNICAL DETAILS:
-filesize of 180MB
-original resolution of 4800x5600
-not so many layers used, something around 60

SOFTWARE DETAILS:
-the chapel and rock formations modeled, textured and rendered using Lightwave 7
-the sky and palms rendered in Vue Professional 4.5
-both planets done in Photoshop CS
-integration and combining of scene elements done in Photoshop CS
-as some of you may already know, I DO NOT use photos in my works, and this is no exception, all is digitally done


So, that's it. Two weeks. You should do a FULL VIEW, just for the sake of it.(otherwise your computer will get infected with spyware when you close the browser. Mwhahahahahahahahhahahahaha!!!!!)

Dedicated to my dearest dear.