Saturday Night Moon

[yourlibrarian]

Wonderful color on the moon last Saturday. Several photos came out like the one below, just a bright ball of light. But we did get a few pics of the color, and I like the way the branches framed it.





My partner looked at this and said "That's a Halloween moon."



It's rare to see a tree this bushy with blooms here these days. So many trees (as the ones in the background) are waiting until nearly June to put out leaves, and smartly so. We had a freeze a week ago and the many damaged trees around have likely just gone up in number. We lost the two dwarf lilacs we had on our balcony after 12 years due to a temperature dip that damaged their buds.

So this is a particularly welcome sight.

Comments

[cmcmck]

That is just stunning!

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks, it was a striking sight!

[shirebound]

I like the way the branches framed it.

Me too, that's a stunning shot.

[yourlibrarian]

Glad to share!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Wow! No words. All amazing!

[yourlibrarian]

Glad you enjoyed them 🙂

Pic #3

[jesse_the_k]

is exquisite -- I want to project it on one of our brutalist state government buildings to liven up the place.

Re: Pic #3

[yourlibrarian]

That sounds like a good use for it!

[marycatelli]

wow

[yourlibrarian]

Nature!

[adafrog]

Gorgeous.

[yourlibrarian]

Glad you liked them 🙂

[megastalin]

I wish I could take pics of the moon with the phone camera. Why are they so bad at taking moon pics? You'd think with all the AI they put in smartphone camera apps they'd be able to figure it out. Anyway, beautiful pictures.

[yourlibrarian]

It's definitely difficult with a phone camera, largely because it's hard to get it to focus on what you want. It tends to be good with landscapes, an overall shot. The fourth photo was taken with my phone camera and not only is its zoom weaker but the colors it records are different. The phone camera can be better at representing a variety of colors and it usually makes your image brighter by default. Even so I had to lighten that one a lot to be able to see the contrasts properly, whereas the 2nd shot, taken with our digital camera, was not altered at all, nor was the third photo, which was on high zoom.

Getting close up made it a lot easier to pick up the deep color of the moon that night, but the digital camera also tends to be better at contrast and light and shade, whereas the phone camera photos tend to be flatter and much fuzzier on anything at a distance.

[puddleshark]

Wow. Fabulous pictures!

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks, it was a great view!

[silveradept]

Those are lovely pictures of the moon. Thank you for sharing them.

[yourlibrarian]

Glad to share!

[turlough]

Beautiful moon photos!

[yourlibrarian]

Your icon made me think that someday I'd like to take photos of the sky without the light pollution. It would be like seeing the universe for the first time.

[linky]

These are gorgeous!

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks! 😃

[semielliptical]

Very cool! Great photos.

[yourlibrarian]

Glad you liked them!

[shadowkat]

Okay how are people posting photos to common nature?

[scintilla10]

Oh, how stunning!

[yourlibrarian]

I was really happy with how they came out!

[ringthebells]

Oh wow, those are gorgeous!

[yourlibrarian]

Yeah, really glad we spotted it and took pics 🙂