Interesting thing about photography is that I can capture these types of pictures. ALthough, what type of lens would I need in order to have a wider view of area that I want to photograph. I'm currently using nikon d7000
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Unless you want to do a lot of wide shots, try shooting ~30% overlapping pictures, and panorama them with Hugin.
Alternatively, of course you can use a wider lens, or get a FF camera with a lens of the same or wider focal length (but you're rid of the 50% crop factor vs APS-C).