MS Paint - Roadside picnic

My vision of what Stalker 2 could be like. The gunslinger "Strelok" returns to his life as a stalker, trying to expose the conspiracy of the Zone and its creators once and for all. He follows the only lead he has. A second Zone.

It's 2018. Massive bubbles erupted across Ukraine, the largest one directly on top of the capital, Kiev. Outside the bubble everything went on normally, but inside, in the course of just a few days, the city had aged over 30 years, and become the second Zone almost over night. The bubble disappeared. At the border there was a view of an overgrown ghost city, unmaintained and ravaged by natural forces and anomalies for decades. It's unlikely that anyone could survive, and there's no telling what lies inside.

The picture took the better part of a week. In the foreground you can see Strelok, with his raggedy home-made stalker outfit, and a Sako TRG .338. The background is actually a semi-trace of a photo I found on Google Earth, so the buildings are really in there, in Kiev. There's a strage dark glow in the horizon, and a blowout it brewing up, swalowing the sunny sky.

Oh, and the full view is 1680x1050 (16:10) if anyone wants to have it as a desktop background.