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You can see examples of my mandelbrots here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/panzerboy/

I've stuck to plain vanilla escape-time mandelbrots, I guess because I haven't PERFECTED them yet :-)
Usually I'll layer them up in Gimp to try and show the stripes and the larger structure.
I haven't seen anyone else use my approach.
A lot of my pics look dark and dull, I generate them to use as desktop backdrops on my PC so darker pix
don't make it hard to find the icons. I also try to avoid the intense colours you see in the default palettes
of many madelbrots programs, trying to get a 'organic' colour mix of greens, blues, browns and greys.
That being said my method is serendipitous so the colours I end up seeing are often I suprise to me.
A lot of my pics benefit from a full size inspection, often theres lots of intricate paterning to be seen at the max resolution.

I recently wrote a little program in C to generate Fractal Extreme palette files from a text file. I generate
the text file from a spreadsheet. This way I can precisely set values and set all 228 RGB index values + stripe indexes.
So the text files has lines like
Red
index 0 value 0
index 1 value 0
index 2 value 36
index 3 value 36
...
index 226 value 255
index 227 value 255
Green
index 0 value 0
index 1 value 36
...
Blue Stripe
index 0 value 0
index 1 value 30
index 2 value 30

An example of what can be done with fractal extreme's palette is my picture 'Homicidal Fruit Salad'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/panzerboy/5125669886/
If anyone is at all interested I could out it up on sourceforge or somewhere.
I also have a program that reads a fractal extreme palette file (.fxp) and outputs the contents as text.

Jeremy Thomson