5-6_lovely_lake.blend (1.3 MB)
Lake Baikal is the largest lake by volume in the world. It’s also one of the clearest. Methane is released by decaying plant matter, and the bubbles get trapped under ice, eventually building up layers and layers of frozen bubbles, seemingly suspended in the crystal clear ice.
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I love your image, great blender-work!
Thank you for sharing the reference-photo. I have seen lakes with methane ice-bubbles before, but I was not aware that Baikal did this too. Extra points for teaching me something! 
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
Amazing! Great eye for detail.
When a render looks enough like a photo to make the rest of us check. Nice work.
Nice image! Magic!!!
Thanks! I like to share the files so that others can understand how it was done to help them appreciate it a little more. Perhaps you could share a little bit about how your images were done too?
Hardly. Sorry. I don’t take students 
I only exhibit finished works.
Not too complicated- DAZ models and AI post processing. You could crank out 10 an hour if you were so inclined
He calls out stable infusion on his art station, so that tracks.
Looks amazing!
Thanks! I’m glad you like it.
