#bright moons

The cow jumped over the moon!

Or rather... the GOAT Celestial Ram jumped nowhere near the moons, but just enough in front of Jode to get a pretty cool shot.

You get what you pay for, or something.

Moon and Clouds The full moon in January happened in the middle of the month on a partially cloudy evening. At first, it seemed like it was going to be too cloudy to see much of the moon except a bit of a glow through the clouds. But as the evening wore on, the clouds cleared out some and the moon slipped in and out between them. I took a number of images with the moon covered almost completely…

Almost Full This is another somewhat old image that needed a bit of work. As I said yesterday, whenever I see a pretty moon in the late afternoon, I try to get a couple of photos. As you can see, even with some post processing work, it’s still a little noisy and not as sharp as I would like. Lately our skies have been pretty cloud covered, so there haven’t been any visible afternoon moons. When…

The February Full Moon was Bright, High Above the Trees features an image of February’s bright full moon as it rose above the trees. It discusses the author/artist’s use of a telephoto lens to capture the shot.

Full Moon At the beginning of February we had a large, bright full moon. It seemed like a good opportunity to get in a little practice with my telephoto lens. I’ve been trying to get better at using it since it really is a vital tool for wildlife photography and using it we’ll definitely takes a little practice. Some of the photos I took of the moon were out of focus or had too much hand shake…