Thx all! I'll definitely have a go at moving the gull, just to see.. Actually there is a light shining on the socks, but it radial and kind of dim (it was left over from my initial attempt at getting the socks to "fall" correctly). Maybe I can change it to a light cone. The "dark clouds" are just a huge cylinder with the "smog" effect attached (but NOT volumetric - I couldn't get that to work properly). Maybe if I swivelled the cylinder... Hmm. As for the "stretched" look of the clouds - I've been staring at this for so long now that I just hadn't noticed it! (time to play with frequency etc..) Thx again for all the suggestions. It's SO difficult for me to pin down problems when I'm so familiar with the image.. Cheers, Diolma