Crescent moon and Mercury as seen a few nights ago. Venus had set below the hills a few minutes earlier. Not a great shot, but “the camera you have…” and all that.
Tag: Moon
Quarter moon
Not surprisingly, the moon’s a lot farther away than that tree.
Not surprisingly, the moon’s a lot farther away than that tree.
Floofy Bird and Moon
Shooting the moon
Looking…up?…at the moonrise over a rooftop.
The western horizon was blocked at sunset…but the view upward wasn’t!
The western horizon was blocked at sunset…but the view upward wasn’t!
Tonight’s waxing crescent moon. It’s passing in front of the Hyades star cluster right now, …
Tonight’s waxing crescent moon. It’s passing in front of the Hyades star cluster right now, which I’d love to get a photo of, but the moon’s just waaay too bright to capture the background stars!
#photography #moon #night #stargazing
Tonight’s moon. Looks like it will be full in a few days.
Very cool! A view of the far side of the moon and Earth beyond it…
Very cool! A view of the far side of the moon and Earth beyond it, from the Chinese Longjiang-2 satellite in lunar orbit.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-earth-peeks-out-from-behind-the-lunar-far-side
Waning moon, taken with the settings I *should* have used for the eclipse on Sunday….
Waning #moon, taken with the settings I *should* have used for the eclipse on Sunday.
I like taking photos of the moon when it’s between phases (rather than full) because you get to see the most texture in it at those times.
“Gotham needs you.”
“Gotham needs you.” View of the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco on a recent trip.
Power lines at nightfall
Power lines at nightfall, with the full moon rising through earth’s shadow into the belt of Venus.
Moonrise over a refinery
That’s right, I don’t have to crop everything anymore! Lamppost Moon, mark II
By the light & the moon.
Rising moon behind trees and a thin cloud layer.
Rising moon behind trees and a thin cloud layer. #moon #silhouette #trees
Eclipse Mosaic
Lunar #eclipse mosaic, starting around 11:00 and finishing around midnight Pacific time, just as totality set in. #moon #stargazing #notaphone
Four views of the moon over the course of tonight’s lunar eclipse, starting around 11pm and running until about midnight. I actually got some shots at the second stage without the phone line in the way, but I liked the way this looked.
Winter tree and moon
Eerie: Cave Ghosts, Moon and Fog
On learning that this week’s photo challenge is “eerie,” I started thinking of all the photos in my library that might fit. My mind immediately went to this one, a shot of a nearly-full moon behind ragged clouds taken, appropriately enough, on Halloween last year.
Just about all of my “eerie” shots involve the moon, or clouds/fog, or both. For instance, this view of fog pouring over a hillside at sunset, and the shadows of the trees inside it.
Or this one, a this scanned photo of a lunar eclipse from 1994. I’m fairly certain that the bright splotch is the moon, and the rest, including the ring and the sharper image at upper right, are lens artifacts. It’s been so long that I don’t remember any specifics of taking the photo.
Finally I remembered a series of photos I took at the Thurston Lava Tube in Hawaii, trying to use natural light (with only the cave walls to brace the camera) and picking up ghost images of the other tourists wandering through.
I have some more shots of that cave over at K-Squared Ramblings. That’s also the blog where I’m trying to do NaBloPoMo this month. I started yesterday with a post about yesterday’s shooting at LAX and the spillover it had on the parts of town near the airport: roads closed, constant helicopter noise, sirens, and thousands of stranded travelers leaving the airport on foot, trudging over a mile dragging their luggage in a ragged line. You know, if I’d thought about it and found the right position for a photo, that would have made for a good “eerie” image.