I fellow your ideas. Add some trees in front, reduce the fog and create more clouds. I include a few seagulls too cos I think it makes the oceanside more realistic! Please leave your comments! Thank you

this looks good but does not cary the feel of a storm. My ideaof a storm includes wind ( adarned difficult thing to do in Bryce)and maybe rain (easier). Following the same wind idea I would also try to have deeper waves. Hope this helps

Looking much better - i think however that maybe you ccould blur the light to the lighthouse a bit better - it sort of looks like they're aren't connected.... And i think you need something else on the right to help balancce the picture... or maybe move the tree in the middle a little more to the left..... Hope these help! Clarissa! PS - for stormy effects - put some fog on/ maybe a faded layer of "difference clouds" (photoshop) over the scene, and maybe some swooshes of clouds in the background, and bigger waves out in sea - cause storms get more ferocious out in sea... at the moment i think it sort of looks like it was taken after a storm (idea?)

Just last thoughts - i dont think seagulls fly around in a storm (that's what makes it look like post-storm, that and the trees and landscape are perfectly still, another reason it doesn't look like its yet in the middle of a storm... Sorry to be so harsh - its really lookin great! good luck Clarissa xox

Or maybe he should just change the name to "After the Storm"? :) Especially if he could get the ground textures to look a little more "wet" (might be just a matter of darkening them).

Oops, Toad already suggested that, and I missed it. Sorry!