Festive Times

Gallery: LandscapePosted August 11, 2013534 views6 comments

I know lately I have just been posting crescent moon photos. I have been doing this for several reasons, partly due to not enough time to go out an photograph as I have been very busy with shows. Also partly due to trying to photograph the new crescent is what got me started in photography in the first place. So I have been keeping to my roots with this genre of images.

Each month when I go out to photograph it, I try to come up with interesting ways to make it just more than a photo of the moon. This month I decided to create a panoramic of with the moon just before it set behind the Santa Cruz mountains. It is a 4 vertical frame stitch and blend that I did by hand.

Its also the moon that marks the end of the month of Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims. I am once again back on a normal eating schedule

Your thoughts on this photo are much appreciated.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Stan Rose on August 11, 2013 at 9:27 AM

A good example of why the rule o thirds is a smart rule. I like this quite a bit, Youssef; IMO it's not the fg that makes it work--its the sublime lines of clouds in th sky, and the color of the moon. Thankx for sharing.

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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on August 11, 2013 at 11:58 AM

Youssef,
This is one of those rare times where I like the smaller image over the larger version. Not anything at all to do with the larger image as much as the framing here of the small pano makes it really exceptional.
This really is very nice and the scene is as simplistic as they come. Excellent idea to make this a pano. Your roots embedded in these type of captures works in most cases, and this is surely one of them.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on August 11, 2013 at 4:10 PM

Youssef, A wonderful panoramic view. That moon looks awesome!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on August 11, 2013 at 9:39 PM

Love the moon against the golden sky. There seems to be a halo across the fg hills. Other than that, this is quite engaging

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on August 13, 2013 at 5:32 PM

Youssef,

You know I always and enjoy looking forward to these. I like flow of the panoramic here - nice choice and presentation for the crescent moon. Well done.

Lon

Registered on November 24, 2006, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments

Comment posted by Bill Chambers on August 14, 2013 at 11:23 AM

Beautiful pano Youssef. My wife and I were on the beach the other night (the moon was a little bigger than seen here), and I commented to her that "Youssef will be out soon to shoot the crescent moon". Sure enough, here it is. Beautiful, as always, and I really like the choice of pano format. Gorgeous sky color too.

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