http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o556/PoeticNightmare/1_zpsa831acf1.jpg

http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o556/PoeticNightmare/2_zps5a62a52b.jpg

http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o556/PoeticNightmare/3_zps7eff5744.jpg

Notice how the ground and some distance looks sort of blurred. Is there a way to improve and sharpen this? Anything within a foot is fine, but beyond that it looks terrible. I am currently running the game on max with the following mods:

Floral Overhaul, SkyrimHD (ALL), and the Bethesda texture packs.

My PC should be up to task:

iCore7 4770k 3.5ghz

20gb DDR3 1866

Anything you can recommend that I do to make this look better? Are there different settings I am not seeing?

Are you sure you're running the game on max? It looks as if your AF isn't on.

It could be caused by your Nvidia card.

Try turning off Skyrim's AF and using your graphics card's anisotropic filtering settings. It should fix your issues.

It seems my card was set to performance rather than quality. I moved it up and it looks a little better. I'll play around with the settings and test. So, to get best result, I should set AF to 16 in the NVIDIA control panel but off in Skyrim settings? I noticed in the control panel Ambient Occlusion and Anti Aliasing Transparency are off. The Antialiasng setting is set to 4x. I am assuming I need to bump all these up as well? When you do this in NVIDIA control panel, it overrides Skyrim's settings?