Nearly a year ago i got this intense program, which lets you make extremely photo-realistic pictures of mountains and such. It took a year to get half-way decent at this...
(not so good)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...untainlake.jpg
(they get exponentially better from here on)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ad111/oops.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...1/sundance.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...prettyneat.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...1/snowpeak.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...111/aaaad2.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...wefwe3f3wf.jpg
Yeah, this is nothing compared to the real professionals who use this program, but i'm climbing the ladder baby! woo!