Adding elements to stills to make them more interesting

[Dave Blair]

Your advice is to get moving video? Geez, Thanks.

[Edward Collier]

for the flame i would recomend particular or layer up the particles that come with.
the water is a little more complicated. but step by step:
1) create a layer of fractal noise, set it to swirly and evolve it gently, animate it moving from left to right also gently.
2) repeat step one but get the noise to move right to left.
3) change the opacity of the top layer to 50%
there you have your animated water texture.
4) precompose, convert to a 3d layer and rotate it to match the plane of the surface of the water in your picture. use it as a displacement map, and also fiddle with the blending mode and opacity to get some sparkles.
5) add glow if nessicary.

hope thats more helpful; it wont look photoreal, but it should look interesting.