First post in ages

Wow, it's sure been a while since I last made a blog (silly word, blog is, sound like something you'd find in a spooky marsh), and so much has happened, I wonder how many people still visit....
For starters, it's a new year! Happy New Year, peoples! And Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Good Freodinalliak day (Don't bother looking it up)!

We're finally over our dreadful winter snow storms (I hope?), which totally slammed us in december, and lots of rain since. The rivers are only now getting back to their proper size. Most of them were flooded over. Glad I live on a hill.
In more personal (but not so much so as to bore anyone) news, I've recently gotten quite a lot written about 7,000 words over 3 days (yay for winter break and vacation!). I also have a big basket of chocolate on my desk, which I snitch from every few minutes or so.
Tomorrow marks the one-week memorial of the Death of vacation (Let's have 30 seconds of respectful silence, in loving memory), but that only means my creative juices are all the more anxious to escape. And that leads me to the actual reason I sat down to this blog: Pictures! Nah, just kidding. They're only renders. I stayed up until midnight working on this last night, which was stupid since I had Soundboard duty at church this morning.
Without further ado, here they are:

Sphere

Ring

Those are my first non-fail (imho) cg/photo composition. In the unlikely case you couldn't tell, the copper ball/ring is the fake part. Be sure to zoom in close, and you'll be able to make out the reflections. That was the hard part, and the whole point. Feel free to tell me it's stupidly simple. I'll agree with you, pat your back, and give you a kiss. *oops* Chocolate kiss.... From the candy basket.... Oh forget it.