Artwork created in 2000

• Renderer: POV-Ray (Megapov)
• I have a catalogue of stock photographs that I sometimes use as a reference for colours, textures and objects. A photo from this catalogue showing a close-up of water drops on a metallic surface served as a starting point for this picture. The main work was to position the water drops. I wasn't very successful: people have told me that an iterative process, that would merge the drops progressively, would give more realistic results than my empirical algorithm.
• The bees and their texture are DAZ'.
• The image uses the focal blur feature of Megapov.