I visited Drune Gotham, last night. The place is a delicious confection of rich, velvety darkness and equally rich light and colour…

… there is wonderful 1920’s-era signage everywhere…

… the whole place has a stunningly well developed alt-20’s feel…

… if you know me, you know I’m not into RP, I’m all about photographing the environment. This iteration of Drune is billed as an RP sim, which might mean it will be up for a while? There were several avi’s here when I was here, but they all seemed to be milling around in the landing area… there are plenty of little, hidden spaces to explore, too, but they were all empty. The feeling of this area, like it had just been deserted…

… had a definite ‘Silent Hill’ vibe, for me. All the interiors are beautifully rendered…

… back outside, and the ‘Silent Hill’ vibe was displaced by the ‘Batlight’ in the sky, and marvellous Bettie Page…

… as with all the ‘Drune’ iterations, the sumptuous lighting and textures are impeccable…

… and the Deco interiors exquisite.

I recently visited Waterfalls of Dreams…

… what a very pretty place!…

… the eponymous waterfalls are several…

… but it was the flora and the light that bedazzled me the most…

… the light is constantly shifting, here. You can literally take two pictures a second apart, and the lighting in them will be totally different…

… almost everything here that is lit, or emits light, has been set to cycle through its colours… that and the rapidly changing sky create a constantly shifting scene light. This isn’t jarring, though, in fact it is surprisingly subtle…

… but once you become aware of it, it can be hard to choose a ‘better’ image of a single scene, as that scene, photographed several times in a row, is always differently lit…

… which just meant I took hundreds of pictures, which is pretty normal for me, anyway (:

I went to Nelipot, this morning…

… it was an autumnal wonderland…

… with plenty of scope for minimalist photos…

… with lots of gorgeous sky…

… but there are plenty of trees and buildings and landscape for more object-filled images…

… but, as always, it’s the big sky and horizon line that draws me.

It was raining when I visited Luane’s World, this morning, raining and misty and autumnal…

… the rain cleared, though, and everything was fresh and clean, and the light was soft and beautiful…

… I hung out, for a while, on a small jetty, observed by gulls…

… before resuming my wandering. The colours and scenery here put me in mind of American Romantic Landscape paintings…

… and, depending on view angle, Maxfield Parrish paintings…

… this is a really beautiful sim for nature photography…

… and just, generally, delightfully pastoral/bucolic scenes…

… I loved it, here, just wandering and stopping to take pictures. There were lots of other avi’s doing the same thing, some on horses, one on some fabulous lion-like beast… all were courteous and considerate, there were no assholes, which is always lovely (:

I just visited Seiiki. What beautiful place! My first impression was how much I loved the lighting… not only is it wonderfully dramatic, but the clouds are static. For someone who often spends a lot of time getting the best cloud action in the background of her images, static clouds are marvellous…

… there’s lots of pretty foliage here, too…

… there’s so much to see, here, this post is only a fraction of the pictures I took. I love all the steps, they often made me feel like I was in a ‘TombRaider’ game…

… there are marvellous vistas to see from all the high places…

… and wonderfull little places to discover…

… the detail is excellent…

… I’m always impressed by how much time and focus something like this must take to create…

… and equally impressed that someone had the vision and drive to actually manifest such a magical place.