So... I'm going through a lot of problems in my life right now, and have a lot of stress.  Out of all the madness, doing art again has kept me from completely losing my mind.  The full story would be incredibly long and is pretty intensely personal so... there's that.  Long story short, this image came to mind in which I could put my sadness, and pain and try to help me deal with it.  Needless to say, I'm not so happy with the image.  It's too clean and clinical and has some problems I've not been able to solve yet, especially with my computer limping along.

So, what I need is just some ideas on how to correct a few problems that I want to deal with:

1. The waterfalls have steps inbetween them, I can't get them to show up as distinct steps for love or money with textures.  Currently they're simple rings of increasing size.  They lack all contrast and short of starting to throw crap on them... I'm just stuck.  I could always look at deleting them and starting something more ornate, but I don't know if I should go terrain or making "complex" primative steps.

2. Water.  This scene certainly isn't wet enough.  I wanted originally to have water running down the pearls and pouring from the fist, but not sure how I could do that without causing my computer to have an obstructed hernia.  Maybe spray coming out from between the clenched fingers, but not sure how to make that look real.

3. Textures.  I'm so angry I can't get a decent stone texture to work at close range or at a distance that carries any emotion to it.  You know what I mean?  To give an idea of scale, the waterfall blocks are 200bu high, the steps (if you could see them are 25bu high, the helix are 15bu diameter spheres.  Maybe I'm just being to picky.  I can't find any pictures to fit on these mats as well. 

Anyway, this isn't transmitting the feeling of sorrow that I wanted in it.  I want the scenery to cry, not the man, if you get my drift.  To reflect the emotion inside.  I guess I just need an outside eye to see it and give ideas.  Maybe it will spark something.
Thanks for looking, and be as critical as you want.  Mind you my poser skill is not so hot.