Already planning my shot. Hope the clouds cooperate.
Posted by Kate Silvia on March 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM
I am so glad you posted this...I was planning on going out on Sunday night...but now my plans have changed. So glad I'm not going to miss it (weather permitting!) Thanks again!
Posted by Bill Brennan on March 17, 2011 at 10:09 PM
This is the supermoon, as I saw it, as it set this morning about half an hour before sunrise. I was at one of my favorite shorebird spots, but apparently the moon kept them all away.
Posted by Jim Erhardt on March 20, 2011 at 7:37 AM
I did not look up the times for moonrise and set, but saw it high in the sky. I didn't notice the size as much as the Brightness...
Buck..............Looks like a huge harvest moon! I wish I'd been somewhere at the beach like you were. That refection right underneath the moon looks like a "once in a lifetime" shot! How did you think of placing the railing just under the horizon to get that effect? Are there Sunsets or sunrises in your portfolio similar to this, or was this a flash of inspiration. ? Because the railing and the touching of the moon to the water surface MAKE this shot. If the rail post had been in the exact center of the moon, I'd swear it was a fake!
ONE HELLUVA GREAT SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!
And---For God's sake mahn, put your name on the photo!
Posted by Toni Lankerd on March 20, 2011 at 9:53 PM
Thanks, Jim and Lucy and Toni. Gee, I had classified this as a beekeeper - not bad enough to delete, but not on the A list.
Lucy - the 'railing' is a bridge (and its reflection) a mile or two away. The moon is touching the horizon beyond, and under, the bridge Yes, I like to do sunrise pictures which sometime include the sun or the moon, usually the rising crescent. (You can see some on my website.) I use The Photographer's Ephemeris, a free software, to help me plan my forays. On this particular morning, as I said, I had planned to shoot shorebirds, but that didn't pan out. For this moon picture I positioned myself to include the reflection across the two sandbars. As the moon neared the horizon, the streak of it's reflection was almost gone. Out of the several frames I exposed, I chose this one because of the way the image of the moon flares out at the horizon. Also the bridge was just becoming visible in the early light.
I had planned to shoot the setting moon the following morning (this morning) - A picture I've been attempting for several years - to get the full moon setting behind the Sanibel lighthouse, from across San Carlos Bay, with the rising sun lighting the shore. Unfortunately, it did what it usually does - it gradually faded into the haze and vanished before it reached the horizon.
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Bill Brennan
Buck..............Looks like a huge harvest moon! I wish I'd been somewhere at the beach like you were. That refection right underneath the moon looks like a "once in a lifetime" shot! How did you think of placing the railing just under the horizon to get that effect? Are there Sunsets or sunrises in your portfolio similar to this, or was this a flash of inspiration. ? Because the railing and the touching of the moon to the water surface MAKE this shot. If the rail post had been in the exact center of the moon, I'd swear it was a fake!
ONE HELLUVA GREAT SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucy - the 'railing' is a bridge (and its reflection) a mile or two away. The moon is touching the horizon beyond, and under, the bridge Yes, I like to do sunrise pictures which sometime include the sun or the moon, usually the rising crescent. (You can see some on my website.) I use The Photographer's Ephemeris, a free software, to help me plan my forays. On this particular morning, as I said, I had planned to shoot shorebirds, but that didn't pan out. For this moon picture I positioned myself to include the reflection across the two sandbars. As the moon neared the horizon, the streak of it's reflection was almost gone. Out of the several frames I exposed, I chose this one because of the way the image of the moon flares out at the horizon. Also the bridge was just becoming visible in the early light.
I had planned to shoot the setting moon the following morning (this morning) - A picture I've been attempting for several years - to get the full moon setting behind the Sanibel lighthouse, from across San Carlos Bay, with the rising sun lighting the shore. Unfortunately, it did what it usually does - it gradually faded into the haze and vanished before it reached the horizon.