Very early morning trip to capture the first light of the day paid off again. The city of Wilmington, DE looks especially good during the elusive moment when the night is giving way to the coming day. That moment happened at exactly 5:50am this morning. I was double motivated to create a new aerial stitched panorama because for the past week we’ve had nothing but clouds and overcast skies on the East Coast.

This image was not an HDR, it was a stitch of 8 photos but the processing was done in Lightroom with nothing but my own VANILLA LANDSCAPE preset that is now AVAILABLE AS A FREE DOWNLOAD!

For a detailed description of my workflow and more comprehensive advice about how to fly safely and create stunning aerial stitched panoramas please take a look at the book I recently wrote.