Before the Sky Opened...

[Mike Lewis]

Driving back from our Texas Eclipse location, it became impossible to ignore the massive fields of wildflowers that lined the highway. We took a quick stop along Highway 76 and I captured this. IOt is an HDR from 3 images. The first is the original with slight cropping and the 2nd is a pano crop treatment of the same image eliminating some of the foreground. Which one works best?

Original version:

Pano cropped version:

A little while after this the torrential rains started and were with us for the rest of the day.

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[Jameel Hyder]

Very colorful wildflowers.

 

[AlanLichty]

I think the pano version keeps my eyes focused on the blooms a bit better. The first one is nice for showing more details on the foreground flowers but they distract my eyes from really looking at extensive the fields of bloom were.

 

[JimFox]

Glad you stopped for some wildflowers Mike. There was so many around the Fredericksburg area.

The pano crop is s huge improvement over the original I think.