Stock Shot Project

I captured this image of dawn just minutes before the sun came up today.  As I was pouring my morning coffee, I noticed the sky color and light intensity changing rapidly and realized I had very little time to grab the shot.  I picked up the Nikon D7000 with 70-300mm zoom and did a quick pan of three images.  Later these were assembled into a panorama using the photomerge feature of Photoshop.  A few seconds after taking this photo, the sun peeked out from behind a cloud, over-intensified the light, and destroyed the subtle calm of the scene.