Lastly from Jakes posts for a bit

I have been slaving at this environment for weeks. the models are made from the original designs. the amount of textures, so many textures, too many textures, i think theres about 105 psd networks going on in this scene.

there is a lot of stuff going on here but, with the right lighting and some fancy mental ray we got what we want, some pretty renders and a good theme

I have been playing around with different lights to try and get that, warm feel on the farm, a lovely rural American sundown. here's a couple of tests  

and here is a pretty render