Modeled and rendered with Blender.  This was my first time playing with blender halos and flares.  I had to mess around with the settings quite a bit before i got where I was going but I’m pretty happy with the flare effect.  I rendered at 2960×1050, as a dual-screen wallpaper for my 12″ and 20″ [...]

Done in Blender and rendered with YafRay.

Made with Blender. You can download both the rendered image and the .blend file below.