I've seen quite a few fractals making use of the "rising above water" look, and I've always wanted to do my own spin of it. My idea was to make the "rise" look more realistic by putting in some fog that obscured the horizon, and playing with the color shift from close perspective to far.

After a while I remembered my old Moonrise in Cosine piece, and decided, "well, call this a sequel, and do morning colors--you got 'em anyways."

The fog is a combination of HSB noise and digital painting. I had to do a few layers to get the watery effects right with the filter I had for it. But the fractal is pure Apophysis, with no postwork blurring or anything done to it. A few gradient layers too. This is definitely more postworked than my usual, but I think it came out nicely for the effect I was trying to get.

Hence, this is in the Fractal Art gallery because the fractal itself hasn't been overtly manipped beyond recognition as a fractal. While not as extensive as *swinck's work, it's certainly more extreme than I think some may be used to.

Title, postwork, border, done in PS 7.0.

Let me know what you think. Maybe I'll get back into the terrain-fractal mixes again. I haven't tried anything against a pure cloudscape from Terragen, for one thing.