Yesterday we made a brief trip to Hancock, and I decided it would be a good time to play with the landscape setting on my camera, as well as with the photostitch software that came with it.

Here’s the view driving to Hancock. I particularly liked the clouds.

The cut is the portion of road on I68 that cut about an hour off the time for the trip from Baltimore to Morgantown. It’s above Hancock, and replaced Route 40 winding up and down the mountain.

Here we are approaching the cut from the East.

If it helps with perspective, the silver thing on the right about 2/3s of the way up is a chain link fence around a walkway that allows you to limb and get a closer look at the mountain.

Here we are passing through the mountain.

Here is the view coming back down the mountain, going towards Cumberland.

And here’s a panorama taken at the rest area at the cut.

Yeah, I need to clean it up in Photoshop, but that’s not bad for stitched and cropped and nothing else.

Nothing up close and personal, because the only place we stopped was the rest area at the cut, and the Hepburn’s Fruit stand in Hancock.