I'm always looking for other peoples' work to emulate. There's yet another photographer here on LiveJournal that I just discovered: Virgo_Moon. VM lives in upstate New York, and has some spectacular scenery to work with, and does amazing things with it. I recommend looking over VM's work. I'm including a sample here for your viewing pleasure (cross-posted from VM's image store, so if it suddenly goes away, it's been taken offline.