This week’s Photo Friday theme is panorama. I enjoy creating panoramas and have posted a few on Flickr. But for this theme, I thought it would be fun to share the very panorama I used to create the header image you see in my blog.
I photographed this sunrise over Lake Elsinore on my drive to work about a year ago. I didn’t use a tripod, just eyeballing it with my 3Mp digital camera (the very one I lost at Versailles last year) and stitching it together with Photovista Panorama. Most people who see it assume it’s a coastal view, but actually it’s looking east over Lake Elsinore, from a lookout point on Ortega Highway. The clouds are hanging low over the lake, and the lights you see on the right side are the headlights of my fellow commuters, snaking their way through the Cleveland National Forest to work in Orange County.
Most people don’t bother to stop and soak in the view. What a shame.
this is a really nice shot (:
hmm, then it means you did some decent editing work on the left edge of that picture. bravo.
Nadine: Thanks!
Tigerblade: Yes, as you can tell from my header image, I cropped it differently, cutting off a large portion of the left field of view as well as the bottom. I also added a gradient overlay to darken the left side. It gets lighter in my original image because I was using the auto-exposure settings on my digital camera (doh!).
Nice color…