Symbiosis: A Bumblebee and its Caustics

[kintuX]

Your image is simply buzzzing through these eyes and into my mind so lively!

[FXtend]

Wow, thanks guys, your comments mean a lot to me

[FXtend]

It looks really dreamy and atmospheric.
Can I put it in our gallery?
If yes, please tell me which name I should use to credit you (your nickname or your real name) and if I should link to a website/portfolio.

Wow, thanks
It would be an honor to be featured in the gallery of the most awesome render engine ever
You could use my real name (Josef Karlsson) and I guess you could put a link to my little website.

[FXtend]

Cinematic, fantastic picture! All this details and the unbelievable lighting. What an amazing, wonderful final work!
Great job! What’s next?

Could you share some details like number of samples and rendering time, please?

Thanks
About 12K samples but you don't want to know the render time
Okay, 664 hours.

As for what's next, well, I don't know... Maybe something that doesn't take four weeks to render?

[FXtend]

It looks really dreamy and atmospheric.
Can I put it in our gallery?
If yes, please tell me which name I should use to credit you (your nickname or your real name) and if I should link to a website/portfolio.

By the way, you can call it only "Symbiosis" in the gallery; the rest of the title wasn't that serious.

[FarbigeWelt]

About 12K samples but you don't want to know the render time
Okay, 664 hours.

As for what's next, well, I don't know... Maybe something that doesn't take four weeks to render?

A render time of almost 28 days is pretty extreme but the result justifies it.
Did you realize if you take electric power of 100 W and a price of 0.2 € per 1 kWh into account your image costs approx. 132.8 €? Regarding your time spent in hours, estimating 4 h per week since 2016 you worked 520 hours, maybe at a rate of 12.50 €/h, equivalent to 6‘300 € for the work time and 104 € for electricity, all together say approx. 6‘500 €. This is grossly blatant.