I decided to rework, re-render and do a little postwork on the new render of this scene. 1) New "homemade" texture for the Xfrog spruces - IMHO, mine is better than the original one ;o) should have chanced it already in the first render. 2) Major overhaul in Photoshop with colors and levels. Thanks for your comments on the first version (soon to be removed.) --- Pasted from the previous posting: "...this weekend I went mushroom-hunting (first real one since my achilles-tendon injury) and like many times before, I stumbled over a huge forest anthill. The ants can make these hills really big and they are such wonderful constructs, thought they deserved a render ;) ********* Some trees from Xfrog, some alpha-plane "backgorund firtrees" (based on a render, made for the purpose), most of the textures are by me - some of them based on pictures from the web." --- ********** Thanks for viewing - comments welcome and appreciated.