Sometimes it pays to take the road less travelled: I live fairly remote in the mountains of Colorado, about 15 miles from the nearest (tiny) town. In order to get to town I have two choices: Either a very rough, unpaved road or a slightly less rough, unpaved road. Naturally, 90% of the time I take the marginally better trek. Except in last June, when I had to take the rougher dirt trail because of road work on the preferred route. But the reward for the bone jarring trip was this view across the valley: A single tree in a sea of bright yellow flowers isolated against two 14,000ft peaks. A seasonal view, because the yellow flowers only bloom for max. 10 to 14 days and were especially prolific due to more precip than usual. Unfortunately, I only had my "runaround" camera in the car, a Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000, and I had to improvise a bit to capture the magnitude of the scene: I zoomed in all the way to 4oo mm in order to close the gap of the five mile wide valley and "suck in" the tree on the ridge against the Rockies and ended up taking five shots next to each other and merged them later at home in Lightroom into a huge Panorama. It worked out great.

Gear: Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000; Settings: F:7.1, 1/640 sec, ISO 125