Celestial Wardrobe Malfunction

an inspired composition.  I like it a lot.  It's wonderful.  I'll find room for it in my "Favorites" folder.  best, j

--Lannie

Let's not get carried away here, Jamie.  Just think of it as a sort of celestial wardrobe malfunction, a slipple nip of some sort.

--Lannie

HI Lannie,

Technically well shot.

I always enjoy the beautiful cloud displays. The moon rise or moon sets over the clouds are the punctuation mark from space that adds that special element.

Best Regards,  Mike

Lovely line composition.

Thank you, Mike and Jörg.

--Lannie

I think this is the better of the two, again signs of "pushing" but it enhances the mood in my view, thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Andrew.  I think it is, too.

--Lannie

Here is the original file.  Why did I shoot at 70mm?  I guess because I saw nothing in the viewfinder that was particularly promising, promising enough to zoom in on.  The moon was already too high for the shot that I had hoped to get.  I took a couple of shots, packed up my gear, and went home.  Only later, three months later, did I download the files and see what you see here--but only with a significant amount of post-processing in CS4.  The earth was already in darkness by the time the moon appeared.

(My original goal when going out was to get the moon and earth in the same exposure, before sunset.  I really need a white house in the foreground to pull that off--with bright sunlight on both the moon and on the house.  Exposure dim enough to keep the moon from blowing out typically makes the earth-bound object too dim, unless one shoots before sunset, when the sun is still shining on both.  Just a personal photographic fetish of mine--to get a moon/earth shot without pasting in the moon in Photoshop.  I also wanted to see where the moon would rise in December from this vantage point, so that I can try again next year and the year after that, so that I can someday get it right.  I tend to take the long view, and I am a very patient man.)

--Lannie