I've been playing around with ways to disrupt the corn rows, no dice either... I guess I'll have to push the camera closer and around a bit.  (I've been meaning to get a better handle on camera intricacies anyways.)  It's not the angle I was looking for, but this won't be the first time my artistic vision is foiled by the whimsies of Poser ;-p

(At the risk of sounding greedy, any luck with the water?)