April Moonrise

tranquil and beautiful image.

Klaus: Thanks for stopping by! Not my normal subject matter, this, but it was such a delightful early evening and the clouds were so beautiful I could not resist. I wish I could have done greater justice to the reality.

This is quite beautiful, Pat. I'm not even sure what I'm looking at. Is it a cloudscape?

Very artisitic, minimalist photograph. I think it looks good just the way it is. The colors are just right and the moon is placed off center creating an focal point for the viewer. Well done.

OK Pat, it was beautiful and you were there. No great thing!

But you saw it and saw, as well that there was an image worth of shooting there. And knew how to compose and how to get all its beauty out of the Digital negative. All that are great, uncommon things.

Chris: this is pointing due East at around 6:40 pm. The sun was about 20 minutes from setting in the exact opposite direction. Those are just clouds beneath the moon. The horizon line would have been another couple of inches down from the camera position used here.

 

Jay: Thanks. This is likely to as close as I'll ever get to a straight-out-of-the-camera photo. The light was perfect.

 

Alberto: Really, this moonrise was hard to miss. Any photog worth their salt would have grabbed a camera.

I believe you, but most of them would have shot the setting sun and not the moon.

BTW, You have, probably, seen my moonrise shot over Monreal castle since it lies two thumnalis next to a shot of mune you picked. What do you think of it? Again, it is a Velvia slide scanned on a flatbed low end scanner and postprocessed whe I knew next to nothing of PS.