Panoramic 4

I was looking for an image for yesterdays blog when I stumbled upon this image. I had totally forgot that I made this panoramic image while I was on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. This image was shot from Clingman's Dome, it is the highest point in the park at 6643 feet and as you can kind of see, gives you some great views of the park. This particular day was not the best day to be trying to see the views, you can see that the clouds are very low and the view is diminished as a result. What you are seeing is a huge storm (we had no idea) that was moving in on us, we made it down just before storm hit. We made it safely to the car before it cut loose with thunder, lightning, rain and hail. It was a short but nasty storm, the top of the mountain was not the place to be when it hit. I feel bad for those who were on there way up the mountain while we were coming down, they surely got caught in the mayhem. Well anyway back to the image, this particular panoramic was actually 5 exposures that I stitched together to make this 1 image. In the foreground you can see the skeletons of many dead trees, I don't remember what they say is killing the trees but something has been introduced that is killing off a certain type of hemlock tree. You can go to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park website to learn more about the blight or you can click here. Well I hope you enjoy the photo, I still need to find a good topic and do another panoramic. Someone has suggested the Cincinnati Reds baseball stadium which I will try but I won't be able to get in there until summer. I need to come up with an idea to shoot sooner than summer. If you have any good ideas please leave me a comment with your suggestion.

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