So how did you make the decisions about exactly what to show in these images?

Linda is an incredible researcher and she will pile on mounds of reference materials.

As most people know, a lot of photographs are not a good painting.

I use a lot of her research and we happen to live in the middle of this, so we've got all of the trees and the plants and the animals.

in our yard.

So I've had bear actually come up from the river and went through our yard, went into our neighbor's basement and decided to eat all of their cat food.

We've had sandhill cranes land in our yard.