Shooting the Moon

A big beautiful moon came up over the farm out behind my house the other night, so I grabbed my camera and   tripod and went out on the deck...

This is the first shot I took...

Obviously this isn't the shot I intended to get, but I thought this turned out interesting... in a that-is-really-weird-and-doesn't-look-right way.  It almost looks like the sun at night... does that make sense?

I really need to go back to my lessons on long exposures and shooting at night because I just couldn't get the shot right. I tried everything... Aperture, shutter, ISO, exposure compensation, etc.  I know the moon is difficult to shoot because it moves across the sky so quickly, but I just couldn't figure out how to get a crisp, clear shot and keep the details that the naked eye could see on the moon.  In every shot I took after this one the moon is either blown out or there is no detail in the rest of the shot because everything other than the moon is black.

Photo of the Week

I took this photo a couple of weeks ago, during a shoot with my own kids.  There will never be a photo that  reveals the true character of my children better than this... I just can't get over how much this is "them".

2nd Place

I logged on to Facebook this morning to find a pleasant surprise... One of my photos earned second place in a photo contest.  I had entered it (along with one other) and not given it another thought really, until this morning when I got the message about being the second place winner.  The entries are voted on by regular folk, and there is no "prize", other than bragging rights I suppose, but just knowing that my photo appealed to people is prize enough for me.

 

Crossing the Oxtongue

Dwight, ON 

A whole year????

Where does the time go???  It's been a year since I posted...  UGH.

Photo of the Week

So... a couple of days this week have ended with spectacular sunsets. The first time I was in the middle of a couple of hours worth of playing "Mom's Taxi" and, much to my despair and disappointment, I didn't get any photos.  The following night however, as you can see, I was much better prepared. I had been watching the sky all afternoon and had a really good hunch that SOMETHING was going to happen...

Obviously, it pays to be prepared.
I wonder when I'll learn that lesson? *sigh*