Favorite visual artist Art Wolfe, Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Alan Lee, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Brian Froud, Calvin Nicholls, Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Caravaggio (tenebrism/dramatic chiaroscuro), da Vinci, Degas, Cézanne Favorite movies Kingdom of Heaven, Sherlock Holmes, The Da Vinci Code, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The 13th Warrior, Excalibur, Gladiator, The Lion in Winter, The Crow, The Dark Knight, The Village, Sunshine, Dances with Wolves, Immortal Beloved, The Book of Eli ... Favorite TV shows Sherlock, House M.D., BSG (2004) Favorite bands / musical artists John Barry, Lisa Gerrard, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Newton Howard, Trevor Jones, Bear McCreary, Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Holst, Mozart, Pachelbel, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Wagner, Dido, The Cure, 3EB, Sting, Pearl Jam ... Favorite books The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The Poetry of Robert Frost, Mary Stewart's Arthurian legend, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Watership Down ... Favorite writers J.R.R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Mary Stewart, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Richard Adams, Rudyard Kipling, Larry Niven, Ray Bradbury ... Favorite games Oblivion, Skyrim Favorite gaming platform PC Tools of the Trade Cameras, PhotoDraw, GIMP, pencil and ink Other Interests Many :)