Night, moon, clouds.

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’m looking for help. I need some advice for taking photos of bright winter moons. Tonight’s moon, waxing gibbous, presented the usual set of problems of being far brighter than the surrounding and we had fast moving clouds added to the mix meaning long exposures blurred any details.

moon in the trees

I took maybe 30 shots and only one is even slightly usable and it’s not very well composed with the moon being almost dead center. You can make out the moving clouds so that’s kinda cool but overall I can’t even get close to capturing what I see.

Sunset, bird, moon.

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

We love the sunset and have been seeing plenty of really striking ones recently. Yesterday we viewed the show at Fort Ward State Park and while the sky was decent I think the next set of photos work because of the bird flying through the frame – scroll quickly to make it all movie-like.

sunset

sunset and bird

bird

sunset and bird

We have some beautiful farmland on the island and enjoy walking it off-season – today we went to Johnson Farm, home of the Harvest Fair.

Moon on

Night, moon, clouds.

Sunset, bird, moon.