This image is only…can only be…a tease to get you to open it the full width on your screen. Click the image and it will open in the Smugmug lightbox on my WideEyedInWonder site, automatically resized to make the most of your machine.

This is another shot that depends on the amazing skies we have been having in Southern Maine this July. When I got to the Plains on Saturday (see Northern Broken-dash on Northern Blazing Star) these clouds were barely peaking up over the western horizon. Two hours later this was the scene. If you need further incentive to view the image large, it only really works that way. Here, where the foreground detail is obscured by the size, the image is too static, with the horizon splitting the fame. If you view it full sized though you will see that the rich detail of the plain makes it a much more balanced, and dynamic, composition. Just saying.

This is almost 180 degrees. If I am facing straight ahead in the center, I have to turn almost full right and full left to photograph the far edges. It is, therefore, what our naked eye would see, if we looked at things that way (and if our view were rectangular 🙂

Four 24mm equivalent frames from the Canon SX40HS. Program with iContrast and –1/3EV exposure compensation.  Blended in PhotoMerge in PhotoShop Elements 10. I cloned out a sign that filled the lower left corner. Final processing in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.