Visualization:  Two views.

Recently, while visiting the Pinckney Wildlife Refuge near Hilton Head, SC, I came upon a wonderful Oak reaching for the sky.  One of the photographic exercises I was engaged in for this trip was utilizing my new tilt/shift lenses for panoramic or stitched images.  This is the only composition that really grabbed my eye for a panoramic stitch.  The technique for using a tilt/shift for stitching is documented on many other sites with Digital Outback providing some of the better tutorials.  But for the technique to work, one must be actively pursuing panoramic compositions while in the field.  This composition is a bit unusual in perspective and angle compared to many straightforward panoramas.  It is hard for me to choose a favorite composition, although I tend to lean toward the panoramic composition.  My purpose in writing this brief essay is to share with you two views that I had consciously visualized in the field.  I enter the field with an openness to any composition and not necessarily fixed on one format presentation be it square, traditional 35mm, portrait/landscape, or panoramic.  I personally find an exclusive panoramic presentation to be boring.  For me, this presentation really cries out for panoramic treatment as the extensive branch system of the tree is more fully presented in all of its glory.  Well, I don't want to explain the photograph to you, the photo should do that on its own merits.  I simply wanted to present two visualizations that occurred of the same object.  I hope you enjoy the image and the two perspectives out of many that are possible in our great landscape. 

A panoramic stitch with the Canon 24mm tilt/shift lens.	A single frame capture with the 24mm tilt/shift lens.