The moon is waxing again and soon will be full. The pattern repeats over and over but the sky is always different. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Lunar Layers’ 1/25s f/4 ISO1600 200mm
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Wax On
On my way home tonight I spotted this gorgeous waxing crescent moon setting amid wispy western clouds. No time to find an exotic location. It was enough to get a tripod out onto the footpath, fight off the pedestrians and time the shots between glaring oncoming headlights. And then it was gone. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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Waning Gibbous
With the excitement of the recent blood moon behind us I’m already planning for the next one and what I should do differently. There are the technical challenges and to that end the problems and solutions are becoming clearer. Practice and technique trump dollars spent every time! OK, perhaps an attempt to photograph the lunar […]
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Veiled Moon
Shrouded behind veils of patchy cloud an impossible challenge is to capture the details of the lunar surface as well as the intricate details of wispy cloud. In the end a compromise was to over expose the moon, to under expose the clouds and do my best to get detail in both. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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Surfing a Celestial Wave
Beachside Glenelg and most people are looking at the gorgeous sunset, snapping away at the horizon or at themselves as it the current trend. I looked up and saw a different ocean. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Surfing a Celestial Wave’ 1/2500 f/2.8 ISO160 102mm
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