> - In the old image, the focus was the stone circle. In this image, the
focus
> is the sunset. The rocks seem like a secondary element. Is that intended?

Not really - I never liked the background to the old image much so I spent a
little time improving it as a way to get back "into" POV after a long
absence. It would seem that as a result of these few tweeks, the background
has (as you say) become the primary element in the scene.

I originally intended on putting a butterfly (or maybe a bird) sat ontop of
one of the stones, but could never achieve the desired effect without it
looking cheesy but maybe I'll give it another bash...

> - The rocks rely too much on ambient lighting, so they look very flat. Try
> adding a dim, shadowless light source behind the camera somewhere and off
to
> the left in order to give them some more depth.

The sky is a very nice image I found at
http://www.daemon.realsoft.com/Environments.htm
The whole scene is lit by  a single point light placed at the sunrise -
without the radiosity the "fronts" of the stone appear black - so I'll
experiment a little with some fill light(s)

Thanks
jim

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