Collodion du jour - 250

Wet-plate collodion landscape.

I love this view of the foothills near Golden, I am not sure that this panorama does it justice but it was good practice. It took me about 1.5 hours to get the four plates. I discovered a huge light leak on my bellows (I have already patched them once) by the second view, which I dealt with by wrapping my camera in my dark cloth. That worked and I was able to finish the panorama.
I have to say shooting outside give me an enormous respect for early landscape photographers like William Henry Jackson who documented colorado in the mid-to-late 1800's.