Blender Render

Nice lighting, very well executed. Nice random brickwork too.

A very minor texturing/composition critique – fireplace is too clean, no soot etc. It needs a bit of ‘grunge’ applied. No red glowing ash in grate.

Going off topic, apologies. This is a real sooty fireplace:

No fire in this since around 1970, I believe. (we came here in 2003) It was ours in the bungalow and behind it was a solid fuel back boiler, which I discovered was dangerous and should have been removed when the landlord capped the chimney. It was behind a steel panel screwed to the wall and took 3 years of complaining until I contacted the Environment Agency, who forced the landlord to remove the whole fireplace, brick it up and seal it. There were some monster spiders behind there, you can see the webs. Only one was still alive but I managed to scoop her* up and escort her off the premises, unhurt. I don’t mind the spiders here, after seeing some of the specimens in the Far East and Middle East. But my SWMBO is terrified of them. And frogs, for some reason. Now I view both of those as helpful, as they eat insects: specifically flies. Being surrounded by farmland means flies. Big blue buggas.

*The big ones are always female. The males are either hiding between matings, or food for the females after mating.

Excellent work. 🙂

I personaly think you have managed what @edps was talking about 🙂