Ok for us newbies please mention your camera, lens used, settings and any post processing to get those amazing shots, please
Very nice
Not sure if my settings, shown in the exif if you have an exif viewer, will help you. I tend to underexpose my images so as not to blow out any details of the skies.
Images 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 are all panoromas or vertoramas stitched together using Hugin, a free open source application that does a pretty good job but can eat up a lot of time. Stitching software is a cheap alternative to owning pricey wide angles.
Faster option would be to use AutoPano Pro, a commercial application. Both of those run on linux which is my operating system of choice but will also run on windows.
For batch operations I use digikam which only run on linux, and for layered editing I use GIMP from
www.gimp.org which is yet another free and open source application that runs on linux but will also run on mac and windows.
If you have photoshop already I suggest you stick to that, probably more bells and whistles and you paid for it so you will want your moneys worth.
My widest and sharpest lens is a nikkor 24mm prime and my camera is a Nikon D70s.
What really makes these images has to do more with being there then the gear or software I used. It is monsoon season presently here in Arizona and its a drag every evening I look up at the awesome skies and I am in my driveway rather then the desert.
Here are some driveway shots.
Not as good as having desert foreground but now and then the sky is enough all its own.
Its a fun hobby and I am glad my wife bought the camera, that she never uses since I confiscated it almost immediately after its purchase. She has her own canon now.