Thanks. Did you click on those buttons? They take you to full-color pages. Things could always be better - not enough time in a day. Constantly learning new and improved methods with rapidly changing technologies. It's a balance beam.

Max and Vray render primarily. I use a variety of techniques to obtain what I am trying to accomplish - basically whatever I need to do in order to get a job done. HDR is sometimes used - but that usually needs to be supplemented with other lighting methods (such as directional lighting.) There's new sun/sky systems similar to Maxwell (based on the Stanford papers) which accomplish different but very good results now that can equal or better HDRI in some ways.

I've also used HDR for a long, long while when Google only turned-up like 15 results for that term lol (I have to brag a little bit.) I also have a website selling High Dynamic Range images which I have created at www.hdrsource.com.