Very nice start .. you have all the elements here you just need to tweak a bit I think .. I have a few tricks I use if you feel like it, for instance the water .. I never use a water plane .. I either use a flattened rectangle or a terrain and usually both ..I find if you use a terrain for water even if it is to be almost flat you will still add some depth and what I call "pop" ;-).. try making a flattened rectangle make it big enough so that it covers the area you want your water.. apply a water texture on it and then add a terrain over the top .. now texture this with a second and different water texture, something with a bit of noise .. as well make this more transparent Play with it and you will see what I mean.. Second trick .. never use just one terrain to build your ground .. make several terrains and fit them together like puzzle pieces .. I find that detailed textures work best on small terrain pieces.. to get a more realistic ground I also recommend layering the odd terrain here as well .. I describe the tecnique on one of my images if you are interested .. it is called "River Trail" in my gallery .. and example of my water trick can be found in my gallery as well on the image "Magic Falls". The sky someone already talked about.. For the falls .. again I suggest duplicating the terrain and adding a second water texture .. same idea as above .. were the falls hit the water add a symmetrical lattice .. sink it into the water .. now add a water texture with lots of noise and vary the transparency.. so it is just a bit of mist .. the same technique can be used on all sorts of strange terrain shapes to give a feel of foam and so on .. Trees .. well that's a whole nother story ;-).. mainly as mentioned do not cut them off.. show some root .. and really vary the shapes and the tree tops.. and last I suggest you spend a few minutes a day hunting down great landscapes ;-) .. and study them.. I have a HUGE folder and find they really help. Wew more I am sure than you wanted to know .. hope you find some of the above of uses.