A friend of mine told me of large wild red clover fiends in a remote place called Drummonds, about 30 miles north of Memphis. I took off early one afternoon imagining to find these wonderful red carpets & photograph them at sunset.
As you can probably imagine from this picture, I could not find those clover fields. I drove through numerous back roads within a radius of about 10 miles with no luck. I found myself at the end of a road – a road that led right into the Mississippi river.
I found one of the dirt roads that led along the river. It was almost sun down and there have been plenty of rain in the last several weeks producing flash floods and overflowing embankments. But the dirt road was so interesting I could not stop.
I drove for over a mile into the fields. With no one in sight for a mile or two I found this magnificent bunch of tree on the horizon. The sun has just gone below the horizon & the mist & fog started to crawl over the fields from the river that flowed right beside the field. The sight was breathtaking. The panoramic composition probably is the best way to show the mood among desolation of the land, the quietness of the air & the magnificent colors of sunset.
This image was created by stitching 5 – 7 frames in Lightroom. The RAW files were processed individually for color correction and perspective before they were stitched together. My Nikon’s digital sensor also has a lot of dust now. So I had to clean up individual files for the dust spots prior to creating the panorama.
On the final image, I did some minor tweaks on the color temperature since there was a wide variation between the left side of the image to the right. The image can now be made into huge prints, as large as 6′ x 3′ on paper, aluminum and acrylic.