One of the things about this blog theme is the banner image at the top of thepage.  Sometimes it’s tough to find a shot that looks good in the long proportions needed. 

Looking through other pictures I realized that using standard cropping ratios like 4×6 and 8×10 just didn’t do justice to some shots.  Some were left with acres of empty space, too much of a crop and some just didn’t feel right until I went to freehand and cropped the way I wanted them. 

I decided to try the banner format on some of them.  These weren’t intended to be panoramas but, they just turned out that way.