As a photographer I extensively use my own and others photos for scenes and backgrounds. With a bit of creative cut/paste/clone, etc., you can come up with some very interesting scenes and backdrops. Most good graphic editing programs allow you to change colors and all sorts of neat things with your graphic BG [but everybody probably already knows this!]. I have comped parts from as many as 6 photos to get a scene just the way I want it. Of course you can't get a figure to sit on a chair in a photo BG, but you can add your own chair prop and plop the figure in it. I have been working on a tutorial on manipulating photos for use in Poser scenes...but is taking forever. As to the Transpond scenes...the DarkLord's Realm and SylvanHolm sets are two of the most versatile scenic props in my Poser folder.