Just another moon? Perhaps… It’s the same one I’ve seen in the sky countless nights and in countless phases. So why is it that when I glance up into the night sky, perhaps for the ten thousandth time, the moon still takes my breath away? A wonderful question I’ll leave for other minds to ponder. […]
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While driving tonight around sunset we were treated to yet another amazing sky where the clouds were lit with oranges and yellows and the vineyards glowed red in the sunset drenched Barossa Valley landscape. With no opportunity to stop we simply enjoyed the show as we headed on to our destination. Later that evening I […]
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The other night I captured this image of the waxing moon and published a single (out of the camera) image taken at 1/160s, f/9 iso100. On that same night I took a short sequence of 30 images at 1/160s, f/11 to try and avoid the highlight blowouts. From these I picked the best 20, stacked […]
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The only thing we generally see different from night to night when we look to the moon is its own shadow progressing across its face. That familiar pock marked disk of craters and ridges never changes. As for the ‘dark side of the moon’, it is the Moon’s dark side day of our tidal side’s […]
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I really like the moon when it’s not a full circle. The shadows on the horizon are often quite stunning in highlighting the lunar mountains and creating a real three dimensional presence. A few days before last night’s full moon I decided to revisit the technical challenge of a half reasonable moon shot with an […]
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