One of the best parts of my job when capturing photo reference for paintings is the scenery.  Not only am I spending time with my subjects, I'm spending time in their habitat, often it's wide open and beautiful like this:

6x12 original oil by Denise Rich   Lone Tree

 

I've come to realize as I go through my reference photos that as I have been taking photos of cows I have also taken some spectacular views, I am going to have to paint some of those also!  Here is one of them already finished, more to come.