[ur-whale]

This has not aged well. Modern OpenSource renders like e.g. luxcorerender produce way more realistic images:

https://luxcorerender.org/gallery/

[anthk]

And povray could do that far earlier than luxcorender.

http://hof.povray.org/

[DanBC]

I'm not sure it's fair to compare a gallery of images created while learning the software with a gallery of images created by people who are very familiar with their software.