and American Photography magazines. When Hawk's photography began to soar, she traded her monthly commuter pass for a job at home as his business manager. They found their dream property on Bossy Lane - a classic fixer-upper on two wooded acres with stone-tiered gardens. In short order, their sons Justin and Brandon came along.       In between those perfect suburban lines, however, another life was developing. Daryl was expanding his horizons as a travel photographer and forging a travel style that's as essential to his work as his Nikon SLR's. "Traveling is like breathing and eating to me," he say's. " And because I like places all to myself, I travel to remote regions, alone, in off-seasons. I want to immerse myself in a culture and meet people and spend some time with them and hear their stories and learn about their lifestyles before I start photographing them.       "When I come back home, " Daryl says, " I have better perspective on things."       Daryl and Heidi have traveled together across the United States and to every Canadian province and territory, "experiencing all the great things that North America has." The photos are stunning, conveying both a sense of those countries' vastness, through sweeping landscapes, as well as their intimate sides, in the faces of the people met along the way. "My mission," says the photographer, his voice gaining strength with each sentence, " is to document the world as I see it right now. One it changes, it will never be the same again. My way of preserving these places is by showing the real beauty through photography.       "Nature is very much a part of who I am, and I try to give back to nature all that it's given to me," he says. "One of my goals in life, with my photography and travel and enlightening people, is to do whatever I

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