Laudholm Farm, as you know if you have been following my posts any amount of time, is home to the Wells National Estuarine Research Center. There is a cooperation between the Federal Government and the Laudholm Trust to manage the land and maintain the buildings and trails, while actively hosting research each year. Laudholm farm is one of few remaining undeveloped salt marsh farms along the coast. This is the vista from the little rise between the Farm proper and the drop to the marsh and the beach. This time of year, I go out this trail to look for courting Bobolinks, and it is one of my favorite photo walks any time of year. What you see in the sky is the back edge of the front that brought severe thunder storms through the night before, knocking out power to the farm and most of the area around it.

This is four hand-held 32mm equivalent exposures, using Program set to Active D-Lighting and Vivid Image Optimization on the Nikon Coolpix P500, overlapped and stitched in PhotoMerge in PhotoShop Elements 9, and processed for Clarity and Sharpness in Lightroom. Nominal exposure was in the f4 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 160 range.

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