Penning Photography Daily

I didn’t count them until after the panorama was rendered, but this is 36 individual frames, stitched together using Autopano Giga software, of the post-sunset sky tonight.

I love capturing the view that I see of the sky.

Here, I was standing on a slight rise in the landscape of Centennial Park, the western-most park in the Springfield Park District. The sun had set, and the sky was fading to black. I started at the far right and panned to the far left, overlaying my individual frames and then stacking them for three rows.

The landscape here is flat. Any hills are few and far between. In fact, this park has a hill that was made so that it could be used for elevated picnics, rolling down the hill or sledding down in winter. Farm fields, cover most of the land outside of the city limits.

That flatness, has a quality that I have come to appreciate, and like sometimes. Times like this, give me the sense of immense space, both on the ground because of the flat land, and that gives me an uninterrupted sky.

I love this.