I simply wanted to represent a beautiful woman with her hawk coming back to her. I wanted to give an idea of grace, majesty and beauty. I also chose the colours of the sky and light to make the atmosphere more dramatic (with a bright sun and blue sky, the atmosphere would have been very different). It's also to feature the characters on a very special background. The environment is very simple but the Indian Grass by Lisa B. is the best vegetation I could find: fine, realistic and simple. The ground was one of the most difficult parts to achieve. I placed a small cloud of dust around ELLA's feet... As usual, the characters were posed in POSER 7 and imported in VUE 6 Pro Studio. The scene was refined, achieved and rendered in VUE. I created a special ECOSYSTEM in order to include the Indian Grass. But here and there, some plants had to be manually placed to populate the environment as I wanted it to appear. One last precision: the character may seem a bit shiny on some body parts (legs, abdomen,...); I could removed it with a slight postwork but I decided to let it as it was to increase the feeling of heat. HEAT AND DUST would have been another good title for that render. But James Ivory used it before me for one of his movies... :) No postwork. Thanks for looking. :) Credits: - V4.1 complete; ELLA by Kaleya; hair by Danae (Primal hair); Nymph Forest outfit by Ravenhair and Guarie (POSERPROS) with Forest Sylph textures by GR8G8 (weekly freebie at PP); gauntlet: Horizon (XV3D and Orion1167); spear from the Valkyrie set by Ravenhair and OOT (DAZ3D). - Hawk from E-Frontier with free texture by Matropolis. - Indian grass by Lisa Buckalew (Botanical series at DAZ3D).