Hi Al. Actually i prefer the Vray image best, although i think the shadows are too hard. Looks like you are using a spotlight from nearly same direction as the camera? Spotlights have a tendency to blow out your image and give too hard shadows. So i would try with a rectangular light (or can VRay produce soft shadows from a spotlight?). And also move the light or camera position so both are not coming from same direction. Because you will not have nice shadows in the current setup, everything looks flat. You might try setting up the light and camera to be approx 120 degrees from each other (gives a little bit of backlighting effect), plus HDRI can give you a very quick and nice setup using just one light. I do this for quick shadow studies...

jonah