From feedback (thanks kindly for that imput Hellborn and Lord Wexford, and to folk on Bryce/Poser NGs), and learning more of Vue I reworked the scene a bit :)
As said only had the program a few days and this is my 1st image with it.

-Added water to break the foreground up.
-Altered the GRASS material in deeper settings so it wouldn't give obvious rectangular and fake looking patches.
-Added a design to the shield, as was suggested by
-Added tons of grass along the new shore line. Dern that's nice, to be able to add so much foliage easy!
-More trees, edited them a bit.
-Made it a sunset.
-Played around with renderer system to work out best ways ot get an image. I did basic render to get the water, because a more advanced render would take MANY hours due to reflections etc, so then SELECTED non-water items and rendered them out on another render at higher quality. Then combined two images in Paint Shop Pro, thus I have quality for solid materials and speed of rendering for the water. Cool!

The program crashes a lot with memory errors, Vue 5 Pro. I have 1 gig RAM, do Poser models always do this, or jsut because Vicky has armour + horse + Wind swept Hair, do you think?

Hey that looks a lot better now. You know one thing i might suggest is that you track the main character with the camera so that the background is motion-blurred but the character is sharp. With the subtle blur you have created it actually seems like a DOF focus effect and draws your eye more to the background. The feel of speed and movement could still be conveyed by the blurring of the background whilst remaining a sharp focus on the most important part of the scene. I think it is a very good picture, i realy like those grass textures in the background.

Thanks Collateral :) Hm lol I hadn't thought of blurring the BACKGROUND, good point!

As far as your comment on crashes, I have pretty much constant crashes after a lot of editing with a few Poser characters. It always crashes during editing - never renders. I have 2 gig of ram and dual athon MPs . . . It is frustrating at times but I have learned to save a lot . . .