New World Tableau: "Surfer" by Arminius Heron

Ideal viewing for a cold Fall day, Arminius Heron shot "Surfer" in a beach region with a kneeling model pose and a surfboard, turning a static shot into a perfect freeze frame of action. (You definitely want to click to see the full effect.)

"It was quite difficult to obtain the right camera angle," Arminius tells me, "because what you would never suspect is that Vanessa is actually hovering about one meter above the board. Plus, this was before WindLight and environmental controls were introduced to SL, so the lighting was rather dull, too. The water and splashing effects are all Photoshopped in using only default-brushes, A LOT of layers and emboss effects."

See many more of Mr. Heron's great SL-based images here, and see the whole New World Tableau series here. To best submit entries of your own, join my New World Tableau group on Koinup, and start uploading them there; be sure to tell us a bit how you created your image.