What a cool scene. This reminds me of some of the more contemporary android fiction that I've been reading recently--it seems that Science Fiction is growing out of technophobia (finally) and machine cultures aren't necessarily anti-human. That's a good thing...I'm sick and tired of malevolent Terminator-type machine intelligences wiping humanity out...it's much better to see something a wee bit more realistic. This scene reminds me of a story I read in which artificial intelligences were mimicking human beings to the point of...well...taking vacations and pretending to get drunk, and a number of robots were running around in human drag starting bar fights (as they thought such things were a human sport.) It was a great story and this really brings that home for me, for reasons I can't really explain. This is great work, and well...I REALLY have to catch up with your gallery!

excellent scifi vision!!!!!!

for em a cool SF scene

Very cool sci-fi composition and mood!!!

Very humourous !!!!

Very well done.

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well craig, as you can see I am away for a while, then when I come back, it takes me several days to get to everyone (I go in no particular order, I just jump around & often I save the longer comments for last, where you're included btw); and your always wonderful comments make me feel a bit of a heel for not being here more often. (I know, there's no pressure from you, but I still feel it since you are so generous when you view.) So I start with your 1st of the year image; and after staring at it full view, I'm back in your wonderful world of artistic precision, subtle inner vision, beauty and gentle humor. One really has to look at this: Your androids really are in Greece! Either that or they're somewhere near a Greek Orthodox church...The piece has very intelligent design: The texture of the walls & stone fences is repeated in the table tops (give my regards to the designer, lol), and even a little in the umbrellas, in the white portions at least. Your light feels true, as it's a late day light spreading that strange saturated yellow-oranges over everything. I love the light through the liquor bottle. And the droids are foils to those tones, in their chrome-like whites, silvers, blacks, etc. Most of it is under shadow, true to late day; and the church seems so clean & bleached, as structures in the mediterranean often are. And you left some of the bell-area flush against the sky so we can see the sky come through it (nice touch). There also seems to be a light source coming from the other side (you sly devil!) and a droid dog or cat! (No droid mouse or bone, lol?) And the sky is quite dramatic, going from intense yellow at the horizon to peach & grayish hues further away. The clouds & light are very well done...A serious render with sly humor & wonderful eye games; and I can't get over that these droids are right next to an Orthodox Church! A witty & subtle juxtaposition, and a fine beginning for the year, which I hope went well for you. Now as we in the arctic (ie chicago) move out of ice and snow, you're slowly moving out of blistering heat, I presume. I hope the fall augurs beautifully for you. Wonderful render & subtly clever too.

Nice scene and good story!