From feedback (thanks kindly for that imput Hellborn and Lord Wexford, and to folk on Bryce/Poser NGs), and learning more of Vue I reworked the scene a bit :)
As said only had the program a few days and this is my 1st image with it.

-Added water to break the foreground up.
-Altered the GRASS material in deeper settings so it wouldn't give obvious rectangular and fake looking patches.
-Added a design to the shield, as was suggested by
-Added tons of grass along the new shore line. Dern that's nice, to be able to add so much foliage easy!
-More trees, edited them a bit.
-Made it a sunset.
-Played around with renderer system to work out best ways ot get an image. I did basic render to get the water, because a more advanced render would take MANY hours due to reflections etc, so then SELECTED non-water items and rendered them out on another render at higher quality. Then combined two images in Paint Shop Pro, thus I have quality for solid materials and speed of rendering for the water. Cool!

The program crashes a lot with memory errors, Vue 5 Pro. I have 1 gig RAM, do Poser models always do this, or jsut because Vicky has armour + horse + Wind swept Hair, do you think?

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