William_the_Bloody - Thanks! Yea, her face is little dark - I got impatient, and should have raised the intensity of the spot light a bit more (forgot to in the second image as well - opps). The renders took about 16 hours each on a quadcore machine as I recall. The "base" lighting is a light dome because C7 had a tendancy to choke with true GI and this scene (32 bit memory limit issues). The 64bit version of the C8 beta seems to have solved this.

Like Miss Nancy said, Carrara does do landscapes and trees (and grass using the hair or replicated vertex objects). I does landscape work quite well now, it's getting closer to Vue. I'm biased because I started using Carrara to render Poser content with Version 3, but I think it does have better/more lighting options than Poser - though PoserPro 2010 is quite nice!  I just finished/posted an image done in 2010 - it sure beats the quality of my last Poser render!
 

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