Two nights ago. Nearly full moon. My camera was with me. I looked up and saw the clouds backlit by this moon. The clouds did a strange dance passing to across the face and then actually coming back from the other direction to recross. I had my long lens with me. Quantaray 70-300mm Tele Macro lens on my Nikon D3000. I pulled the car over around midnight under a tree protected from street light noise. No tripod as usual. Most of the shots were a blur. I could feel the camera bouncing from my heartbeat during the 3-6 second exposures, while balanced against the driver side door. Somehow, some of them actually came out not blurred. Have I mentioned that I love photography yet? I have never captured a decent shot of the moon…not once. I don’t know why. I just never figured it out. I finally found F20 and 3 second exposure for when it was slightly clouded. And then down to somewhere around 1/10 of that perhaps when it was fully bright. I just sat there in silence, seat reclined, waiting for those right moments, knowing as always, that only a handful of the many shots would be worth looking at. Below are the ones I felt worth sharing. Click on any of them and you are taken to WordPress’ gallery where you can click down the lower left to see the pics even larger if you wish.
Wow….truly amazing….I love moon shots, too, and yes it is hard to get a good, clear shot with a regular camera. On my gravatar profile if you scroll through the pics, I have a pic where a yellow moon is peeking through the trees….I love taking pictures of nature, anything that moves me……I am famous for grabbing the camera and running out side to photograph animals and bugs, flowers, autumn leaves, sunsets and sun rises, run barefoot through snow for a quick shot of something that caught my eye, or splash through puddles after a rainstorm to capture those big menacing clouds filled with lightening, or a rainbow, or that bright white sunlight that streams down through the dark rolling clouds, making it appear to have a silver lining around them….–>when this happens the shadows cast down to the ground make everything look so surreal and animated, like some parallel world where light and shadow dance and create together. I actually wrote a sensory poem once trying to relate the otherworldly feel and my emotions during rare moments like this….here is the link if you would like to read it…
http://celestealluvial.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/after-the-storm/
Anyways, when I stepped out for an early morning trip to the store, the moon was so big and bright and beautiful I couldn’t pull my eyes away for some time, admiring it’s celestial beauty. The earth truly is a living work of art, full of wonder and phenomenons we cannot explain. It is good to be alive to witness these things, to pull them deep inside where they can take root and speak to us of ancient secrets on a very elemental level within our consciousness…..
I will stop before i write a sonnet or a story here about the glorious magic of mother nature, lol…..
Thanks for sharing your photos and have a day blessed with peace in the light….
Celeste