A few images rendered with sprout, a CPU-based path tracer. The source can be found on github.
                
                [ San Miguel ]
                
                [ Fir tree ]
The aurora is procedurally generated, inspired by the paper Simulating the Aurora Borealis.
                
                [ Alpine Landscape ]
The lighting consists almost entirely out of caustics, which are rendered with light-tracing and photon mapping.
                
                [ Disney Cloud ]