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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: David Eckels on October 15, 2020, 09:27:58 am

Title: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: David Eckels on October 15, 2020, 09:27:58 am
I have never seen this: The moon lit by reflection from Earth. Shutter slower than 1 sec, I'd need a tracking device!
And 20 minutes later, just now, I went outside before the sun came up above the horizon, and the moon had disappeared! Trump stole the moon!  ;)
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 15, 2020, 11:54:12 am
Nifty shot.
Maybe Barr arrested it.
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: Frans Waterlander on October 15, 2020, 12:15:39 pm
Nifty shot.
Maybe Barr arrested it.
Is it really necessary to show your political bias when commenting on a really nice image? Oh, that's humor? Not my kind.
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: RSL on October 15, 2020, 03:00:44 pm
I agree with Frans. Lovely shot, ruined by politics.
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: MattBurt on October 15, 2020, 03:12:55 pm
Nice one.
I love when the moon looks like that. I've wondered if I could ever get a new moon photo with the whole disc in the shade during dawn or dusk. Might be pretty neat and a good challenge.
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: David Eckels on October 15, 2020, 03:43:01 pm
Nice one.
I love when the moon looks like that. I've wondered if I could ever get a new moon photo with the whole disc in the shade during dawn or dusk. Might be pretty neat and a good challenge.
I don't know Matt. Just 20 min after I took this, it was impossible to see the brightly lit sliver. Maybe dusk would be the same and perhaps someone knows the basis for this phenomenon.
As for politics, have we really lost our senses of humor? I was proposing an answer to the implied question: Where did the Moon go? Note the ;) I thought Eric's follow on was funny too; arrested it get it? Stopped it in its tracks. Funny. Glad you liked it. The image. The humor... meh.
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: MattBurt on October 15, 2020, 03:49:51 pm
I don't know Matt. Just 20 min after I took this, it was impossible to see the brightly lit sliver. Maybe dusk would be the same and perhaps someone knows the basis for this phenomenon.
As for politics, have we really lost our senses of humor? I was proposing an answer to the implied question: Where did the Moon go? Note the ;) I thought Eric's follow on was funny too; arrested it get it? Stopped it in its tracks. Funny. Glad you liked it. The image. The humor... meh.

From what I understand the dark side getting dimly illuminated is from earth shine, when light reflects back from the earth to the dark side of the moon. It works best when it is cloudy on the daytime side of the earth.
And yes, the window of opportunity would be small and the moon probably very hard to find. But it may be possible...

I don't mind the joke but also didn't find it especially funny. But hey, they can't all be zingers.
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: langier on October 15, 2020, 06:44:20 pm
+1
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 15, 2020, 11:38:40 pm
To all who were offended by my cheap political joke, I apologize.
I believe my record of avoiding politics on LuLa is usually pretty good.

-Eric
Title: Re: Moonrise this Morning
Post by: David Eckels on October 16, 2020, 09:48:20 am
Not cheap, funny, Eric. I started it  ::)