Had fun making this one over the weekend. Any thoughts?
Created in Blender 2.81 and Edited in Photoshop
Ended up taking over 4 hours to render at 500 cycles. 
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Woah! Thanks! Wasnt expecting that 
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really nice !
how did you do the snow on the trees ?
Good work, congrats.
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To make the snow on the trees I duplicated the leaves off of the tree and made the particles into one single mesh. I then used a remesh modifier on that mesh to create a sort of lumpy approximation of the trees shape. After that I sculpted out the little mistakes and bumps. I tried a few things from liquid simulations to particle sims and this is what turned out the best.
It’s definitely not the right way to do it but it worked! 
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Looks great!
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The “right” way, is when you do it and it works. You did it, it worked, so its the right way.
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Very good. Did you use Denoising? If so, which one?
Surprisingly, no I didn’t use any denoising.
Surprisingly clean render for just 500 samples, especially in the DOF areas and SSS. Excellent work.
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
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Nice image! I really love how the snow piles up on the branches accurately, it just gives the extra real-feel!
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so beautiful. love the mood