Prelude to a Full Super Moon
Prelude to a full super moon – what does that mean, anyway? Shortly after 6:00 am on November 14, the “largest” moon between now and 2034 will officially be “full.” The largest this moon will appear at moonrise will be tomorrow, November 13. Some of us who have photographed various moon phenomena find ourselves a little bored with just a bright full moon against a dark sky. Moonrise tommorrow will happen in light. It will be dusk, but not dark. For photographers, that presents an exciting challenge. Today I decided to practice with a series. All the camera settings are the same in this series. The images were photographed from 4:39 pm to 5:00 pm MST. Notice the changing light on the Sandia Mountains. A couple of frames have birds flying through; I left them. I hope you enjoy this “night before the night before the morning of…” in gif format. It loads slowly, and then repeats at normal speed.
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Wow! Very nice gif. I really like it.
Hi, Tim. THANKS!!!! I love how you and I are interested in photographing many of the same things, and even when we are together, end up with such wildly different results.
This one was fun. 🙂
I’m always intrigued by what we come up with photographing the same things. Ways of seeing are so different.
They certainly are, which is part of the fun – sharing later what we “saw” when looking at the same thing. I’ve seen people who try to photograph the same way, and I think that would be a little boring, to say the least. I’m looking forward to our next photographic excursion, but in the meantime it’s nice to see what we are doing with the same subjects here at home.
That is a beautiful gif image, Susan! The weather changed frequently all night long up here. I’m seeing more patches of blue amid the clouds this afternoon, so I am somewhat hopeful for moonrise tonight.
Hi, Lavinia. I hope you got to see the moonrise after all.
We had very clear skies, but by the time the moon rose over the mountains, it was dark. So I have to say, I really enjoyed photographing yesterday’s moon better than today’s. But I know how fortunate I am to have seen it today, to say nothing of the days leading up to today!
Thank you for dropping by!