The clouds eventually obscured the moon but in this photo the moon wears them well. (Read more)
Read More09-28-15 "It's Only a Super Moon. . ."
in Blog, Black Hills, Nature
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08-30-15 This Time I've Caught the Moon
in Black Hills, Blog, HDR, Landscape, South Dakota
Yes, it's redundant . . .
Read More04-06-15 Lunacy
in Blog, Nature, South Dakota
I'm no lunatic. . . (read more)
Read More03-05-15 Winter Moon
in Blog, Landscape, Nature, Photography
What does cold weather do to a full moon? (read more)
Read More08-13-14 Sailing Towards the Super Moon
in Blog, Landscape, Sailing, South Dakota
Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is much further away. . . . (read more)
Read More02-02-13 Morning Sky
This photo found me. I was heading west yesterday morning to run an errand on the way to work and I noticed nice, soft blue and scarlet hues in the western sky. Thinking that I might have a good sky to drop in to a photo that has I less interesting sky, I took this photo.I really wasn't thinking that the photo would stand on its own, but when I worked on it in Aperture 3.4, and with Nik HDR Efex 2, I decided I liked it.
01-18-13 For the Lunatics
This one is from the photo archives, though I don't think the moon has changed much in the 8 years since I took this.Canon 1DII 1/50s f/9.0 ISO100 400mm
09-24-12 Winter Eclipse
This is was shot in minimal light a few years ago. Having heard that there was going to be a total lunar eclipse on this night, Deb and I went driving to find a good locale to see and photograph the moon. I finally found this four trees posing nicely in front the waning moon.
Moonlight Ride
in Seasons
This photo is the second in a series I call "Taking Photos On a Bouncing Boat." The first photo shows up here, and, frankly, I like that one a lot more than this one. But as lakes turn to ice around here, I take some comfort in remembering this boat ride on a warm August night in Iowa.
The Skeleton & the Man In the Moon
in Nature, South Dakota
I was out chasing the moon and the sunrise a while back and I captured this. I'm not sure I like the composition. Or the title for the blog post. But I do like the purple-hued sky. And I like the full moon, of course, which has faired better over time than the windmill.
Moonset Over Hills & Trees
in Nature, Seasons, South Dakota
The moon is real. The hills are real. And so are the trees and the freshly worked field. But the photo is Photoshopped. So is the photo real? While I'm at it, I might as well ask if "moonset" is a real word?(PS: Have you adjusted your camera clock time to correspond to the shift away from DST? "Does time really matter?" you ask. My answer: "Metadata matters!")
Contrail & Crescent Moon At Dawn
I owe this shot to my son Brian - he looked up and saw it and I happened to have my camera. Is there some deep meaning in this photo? Maybe. Or is it that I have nothing better to post? Who knows. . .