Flyway Through The Pass

I think this is my first post in this Gallery. It is not as imaginative as most of the images posted here. It is in fact an attempt to produce a realistic-looking image, but one that did not exist in nature. This is a section of a long multi-frame panorama, (looking south toward Indian Pass in the Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness, hence the title) but it's a combination of two versions that were shot five hours apart. When I shot the first version, there were geese in the photo, which added more life to the scene. However, the overcast sky was totally gray. Later that day I started seeing colors in the clouds from the setting sun, so I raced back to the scene of the earlier panorama and re-shot it. The more colorful version contained no birds, but later (using a layer with the blending mode set to color) I added the sky color from the later shoot to the image with the geese.

Larger image provided.

Canon 50D
Canon 100-400L
Multiple exposures
Tripod and electronic release.