no you get shadows on water...like this

I would argue that those shadows are more in the water than on it, this photo from that same photographer shows it:

the water has to be quite murky for shadows to be visible (and the shadows are on the murk, in the same way as you can get shadows on smoke or fog). I've just been in my kitchen with a flashlight and 2 mugs of water, one clean, one murky (diluted leftover milky coffee). To get a visible shadow on/in the water it has to be so murky that you can't see the bottom of the mug. As you dilute it with clean water the shadow gets weaker and then fals directly on the bottom of the mug. Can Poser render murky water? I've never tried.

and that is like the water I am doing in the scene...its pond water....so I am trying to get the shadows on the water as well

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