Glorious, Far and Wide
by Wayne Jones
I guess "far and wide" is a relative term. I've admired the wide open spaces of the west, where I can see mountains a hundred miles away. The most distant peaks in this panorama are only about 12 miles away, but it's a far view for this area. It's the Eastern High Peaks Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Forest Preserve, viewed from Baxter Mountain just after the first snow of of the season, early last October.
UPDATE: I added the word "Glorious" to the title. When I read Mark Seaver's comment, I realized that my hasty narrative was misleading and diminishing. My original title "Far and Wide" seemed to fit well, but I worried that a 12-mile view was not far compared to many vistas in the American west, so I noted that the title was a relative term. What I failed to write is how I feel about this vista. It allows me to see the highest mountains in my state, and on this day, the view was crowned by autumn leaves at thier peak of brilliance, by a thin coat of sparkling snow in the high places, and by the clouds bringing that snow, but allowing the Sun to perfectly illuminate it all. For my joy at witnessing this place on this morning, "glorious" is the perfect word. Thanks to Mark for reminding me.
Canon 5D3; Canon 24-105 mm.; Circ. Pol.
1/40 sec. @ f/16; ISO 160
6 vertical images stitched in PSCC
Comments
14 commentsI had pretty much made up my mind not to use the Polaroid filter when stitching panoramas due to the abrupt change in sky tones between adjacent images. Yet here you demonstrate how well this can be done.
Oh i did want to make a suggestion. The dark side of the large cloud on the far left seems to be too dark in my opinion. The clouds on the far right look more natural.
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Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI
A Grand, and yes, Glorious view! I think we all have views like this and like sunrise and sunsets, we revel in them. I wasn't standing there, but I know of what you experienced,
Great, natural color throughout (tamed saturation) and great processing in general. This deserves to be printed large, hanging if not in your living room, then somewhere.
Lon