Magical evening

9 years ago

I had hoped to set up my tripod this morning before heading to work to get some great shots of the super moon, but the sky was solid clouds, so no dice.

But tonight is a different story, it is so magical. I've been working on finishing a quilt tonight and I could hear 2 great horned owls calling to each other outside my sewing room window. I grabbed my camera and the lightest fast lens that I could hold without a tripod (didn't want to be banging around and scare them off) and headed outside. The owls calling back and forth just across the road, the eerie clouds and the full moon just seemed so surreal. I normally have no problem getting the craters of the moon sharp and crisp but something about the orangish color of the clouds and the extremely bright moon made it hard to get the right exposure and balance the light.

Anyway, here are a few shots that I like.

Rhonda

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Rhonda
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9 years ago

Thanks! That is too funny!

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whgille
9 years ago
Rhonda, beautiful shots! I saw it too and I wish that will put some magic into our lives....

Silvia
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9 years ago
Beautiful! I forgot to look last night. I do love the moon and stars. When I lived in the country, my son and I would lay on the hood of the car and look up at the stars.
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Rhonda
Original Author
9 years ago
Thanks Silvia and Deb. I'm in Levy county where the biggest city is 2,500 people (spread out over many miles) and I'm 10 miles from that small town so I have very little light pollution to affect sky gazing. I sit outside many evenings star gazing :)
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10
9 years ago
Thanks for this. I was so disappointed that we had solid cloud cover all day & night here yesterday = (

I thought about checking @ moonset, but I needed sleep more.
Rhonda
Original Author
9 years ago
You're welcome Carol. I was disappointed too. I had it all planned out in my head....perfect cow pasture with silhouettes of longhorns and live oaks, low sheet of fog and the huge moon. But the solid clouds ruined that vision. By the time I got home last night it was too dark and cloudy so I had to settle. Oh well, there's another one in another 70 or so years :)
writersblock (9b/10a)
9 years ago
Great photos, rvird!

It was cloudy here, too, so a friend of mine sent this: