OK I'm unashamedly saying that this one was inspired by Shadow Dancer. Thanks for everything thus far, Jennifer.

http://pics.xs.to/pics/04081/shadow_dancer.jpg

OK, I got some views but no comments. Maybe everyone's too busy or maybe no one is seeing what I'm seeing. The posted image is at 800x600 in deference to those running lower resolutions. The original image looks superior at 1600x1200 resolution. Because I realize not all of you can run that high, I haven't re-posted a larger copy. What I have posted are two 1024x768 images which are the color shadow mask and an enhanced shadows conversion. Both have the starfield removed as well. Once you look at these and review the originally posted image, I'm sure you'll be seeing what I'm seeing.

Please set your monitor resoution to at least 1024x768 and view full screen (save the jpg to disk if you must, because many browsers scale down the image to fit the vertical window size, with lots of detail loss.)

http://pics.xs.to/pics/04081/shadows.jpg
http://pics.xs.to/pics/04081/shadows-enhanced.jpg

I like the reflection things we talked about, its nifty.

wow, nice. How was that done?

I feel like I need to know more about it before I made any comments, I mean, *what* is that? Is it just a digital image? Is it a manupulation?

Please don't take these questions the wrong way it's just that the image is so smooth I can't tell how you did it.

Noritha,

The image was created using Poser 4, Bryce 5 and Adobe Photoshop 5 on a Windows PC. There are no photo elements in it. It took several hours and used many techniques I've picked up over the years. Colored lights, shadows, mirrors, textures and a color burn starfield. Thanks for any comments.