Cell phone trick for wide angle.

Maybe this was obvious to everyone except me, but I've always considered "pano" shots on mobile phones to be those long unwieldy horizon shots. Then I figured out how to use the pano feature to make a "normal" wide-angle photo with the phone. Holding the phone vertically and rotating it only a little produces a regular looking photo that is much wider:

Regular shot:


Shot with pano:

We did some vertical panos when in the redwood forest in California, but your wide angle view looks much more natural!