I spent some time with the lighting and have a base setup of six lights at the moment, but I'll leave that for a while - I like to leave it for a few days and then have fresh eyes to judge when I get back to it.

I've been experimenting with a couple of colour ranges in the lighting - I wanted to try bringing in some complementary colours via fog materials, but I think I'll stick with a limited range of reds for now.

One other thing I started was the stonework. I'd initially planned to use failry basic geometry and have the textures do all the work, but as the stonework is very much in the foreground I wanted to give it some special attention. I decided to model every stone. Actually making the stonework isn't too much of a problem (and the arches were kinda fun). The end results are of course far better, but initial tests have shown the render's pushing 2 million polygons.

 

Ouch - I'm going to need more memory.. and a good book to read for the final render.