Progress but its a bit painfull

Helen Index : 5-6
Mood        : OK

The last few days I have been feeling rather unwell, Last Friday I ended up with my first migraine in around 5 years, and then I had another one on Sunday. Why now, I don't know, it all starts with my eyes and not being able to see clearly and then the jazzy lights start and that leads to the pain in the head. I would not say that it is very bad but it sorts of stops me doing anything and it can also resulting in feeling sick (nauseous). As a result of this I have not done much work on the house but have managed to do some drawing and reading etc.

First I have finished my first go at a digital art image using Bryce5 and Photoshop. I started the image as a workshop from ImageineFX Issue 14. The workshop was by Adam Benton and he provided the model of the space ship and some instructions. I will admit that I found the workshop hard to follow, with some instructions very detailed and others very vague, It was not very usefully for a complete novice. But I persevered and I am quite pleased with the result.Click image to enlarge

The image above consists of 4 Bryce models, one for the ship and land and 3 for the planet. The separate rendered images are then put together in Photoshop.

I have also been reading a Spanish book about Canarian volcanoes, I seem to get interested in a lot of diverse things, and trying to read a Spanish book does help my Spanish, if only in volcanic technical terms. But I have learned that La Palma consists of two main groups of volcano's, 5 very large ones to the north and one smaller one to the south (though the southern one consists of many vents), The one thing of interest is that originally I thought that La Palma had only one Caldera, and that was the result of erosion. but there is actually two and the hidden one (though it may not be a strict caldera) is much, much bigger. - I need to write it up some time once I can work out a way to generate a set of graphics to illustrate it..