pixiekiller, Thanks
meredith, Thanks. It was for school but I should check on the compitions and maybe try to kill two birds with one stone next time.
antiant

, It is all modelled. The lower ferns are modelled leaves that were texture mapped. I then duplicated them along the stalk. The taller ferns in the distance are planes with an image map and transparency shaders. You can tell if you look in the shadows but sense it is not obvious I am prpably not going to fix them. The distant trees are extrudes for the branches and then the leafs are modelled and duplicated around. I am glad you like it. Paint fx do not render with mental ray and when you convert them to polies, It is poly overkill so I had to find another way to do it.