At the Field's Edge

I have struggled to learn Vue on and off since version 6, and now, at version 13, I've finally gotten a decent render out of it. A big thank you to Dax Pandhi . His incredibly clear and helpful Emerald Ecosystems training video is available over at Cornucopia3d.com. The crabapple trees in this render are new TPF plants, and boy are they purty. The background is slightly out of focus, which was done in Photoshop using the Z-depth file. I know it's a bit of a cheat, but it really adds to the photorealism. The dead tree is an older model with a Mossy material applied. Bitmapped textures weren't working. In fact, most of what you see here is procedural, from the ecosystems to the rocks. 

So, here it is, my first decent render with Vue 2015 Complete.