The Cycle

No quote this time guys
This image belongs to the "A natural disaster" series and it's the VI chapter (so its original title is "A natural Disaster VI: The Cycle")
I used the same working basis as in "The Rescue": Digital painting (the girl), 3D, some vector and some photomanipulation. Remember, the girl is painting and I spent a lot of time making the hair, one by one. Also I tried to make everything flow together well, so I took my time for the lightings. If you care to fullview, you will see that everything has it owns reflects and lightings from the light sources. I tried to make it real.
The meaning is there. You have the title screaming it. And if you have followed the series you'll find a logical conlusion to them with this image, more hopefull that the usual past parts were.
The photo for reference belongs to ~stockfones. Textures as always from the one and only one *textureific and the rest from sxc.hu, morguefile and imageafter.
Photoshop 7, Painter 9, Photomatrix Pro and my own hands.