Two Suns, Two Ponds

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Two Suns, Two Ponds ...and three beaver meadows that used to be ponds. (For a better explanation of the ponds, see my previous post in this Gallery: Made by Glacier and Beaver.)  This is where I was headed when I stopped briefly to shoot the image I posted a couple of days ago.  It's the summit of Moxham Mountain in the Adirondack Forest Preserve

When I peered over the cliff and saw the old beaver dams and filled-in ponds 700 feet below, I wanted to put them in the foreground of a big landscape.  Then I remembered that this mountain was named after the surveyor who first mapped it ...after he fell to his death from these cliffs.  I decided that my foreground would be the plants on the summit.
 
About the "Two Suns."  This was kind of an odd sunset.  First, for a minute or so the Sun reflecting off the clouds above it gave the appearance of an extra Sun.  Second, the clouds around the sun are tilted clockwise.  When I noticed this in post-processing, I thought it was some kind of Photoshop stitching error; but when I checked the original Raw files, the tilted clouds were there in all 20 of the original single frames (I shot that frame of the pano with 5 bracketed exposures, and repeated the series 4 times as the Sun was setting).

Canon 5D3; Canon 24-105 mm.
Two vertical exposures hand blended for each of 5 frames in the pano:
    0.3 sec. for sky; and 1.3 sec. for land, at f/16; ISO 100
I used my trusty home-made pano bracket on top of my Acratec GP Ballhead.

P.S.  For those familiar with the Adirondack Region, that light-colored mark in the hill below the Sun (looks like a back-slash " \ " ) is the class IV and V rapids of the Hudson River Gorge.  The Hudson up here is a wild and scenic river popular for white-water rafting as it tumbles through the wilderness.  The dark horizontal line though the forest in the far valley on the left is also the river's path.
 

This altered version of the image will appear only on NPN.  I cloned out two inconspicuous distant cleared fields in order to comply with the NPN Landscape Gallery rule requiring "no evidence of hand-of-man."  I did that because I don't believe a photograph of a wild landscape that includes a barely noticeable clearing miles away belongs in the Man and Nature Gallery.  I also cloned out a couple of con trails in the sky.