One thing wide angles lenses allow you to accomplish well is to place two scenes adjacent to each other. That can be quite impactful. By the same token you have to work a bit harder at it. The reason being you have to be more discerning about what you leave in and what you leave out. Are you weakening the image by including certain elements. The brain has to work at seeing the how the two go together. Stimulating the brain’s activities is what we should be attempting to achieve with our photography (others and our own). In composing an image that’s pretty much what we work at. Refining the vision is another way of expressing it. Looking at a scene is a bit like solving a puzzle. What does one element have to do with another? It may be complementary or it may be there to create tension or intrigue. That’s the creative choice of the artist.

I also wanted to mention that in this case it’s not just wide angle but cropped wide angle. Cropped so that you don’t have to worry about filling the foreground with meaningful ‘content’. 16x9 or Xpan has it’s own appeal (or in this case 22x10). It’s not the right format for every image but can be used to great effect. PS. This image has a LOT more punch than is rendered on this website.