Visual development for environments

I've been diving into Gaea a lot lately, it is such an amazing piece of software.
These are some of the images that this research has resulted in.

The workflow is very basic:
1. Create a terrain in Gaea
2. Export as a mesh.
3. Set up a scene in Max with good lighting,l in this case 1 HDRI and one Fstorm Sun.
4. Set up a Forest Pack scatter system. Here I use a few splines to controll the forest.
4. Build some simple geometry and place all over. Everything is 3D, no photo object.
5. Render
6. Paint and color grade.