…it used to be full of life.

I had two different things on my mind when I shot and processed this photograph, and I listened to Loreena Mckennit’s Dante’s Prayer, as well as Alison Moyet’s This House, while post processing.  This particular photograph is actually a vertical panorama, or Vertorama as it is often called.  It is the product of 18 brackets (9 for the top half and 9 for the bottom half).  While stitching panoramas together sometimes in a need for extensive cropping, there was none of that in this particular piece because I used a tilt/shift lens to get my brackets, shooting one set of 9 brackets (the top half) with the lens shifted up, and the last 9 brackets (for the bottom half) with the lens shifted down.  This is one of the biggest reasons I love tilt/shift lenses.