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A friend and I went over the hill to Santa Cruz, CA this month to photograph the Moon rising above Walton Lighthouse. We both really like having water in the image, and pretty foregrounds.
We knew there wouldn’t be much time to shoot since the Moon would need time to climb to get above the Lighthouse, and it’s getting dark earlier.
When we got out of the car and looked at the horizon and lighthouse we groaned. There was a thick band of fog just sitting on the horizon. We wouldn’t see the Moon until it got above that! Time wouldn’t be on our side.
The sun had set and the sky was getting darker…finally I saw the top of the Moon above the fog bank.
The Moon got high enough for me to make it out almost completely.
It finally got out of the Fog only to be obscured again. I tried to get a few more images, but it was getting too dark to keep the foreground in the image, and I wanted that. I was also a bit frustrated with the wind, and shaking from the passing cars which shook my rig, and the pier I was photographing from. I deleted quite a few blurry images.
The color of the Moon was gorgeous though, and it was big being so close to the horizon. It would have looked much larger when it was just above that tree line if I could have seen it then. Maybe next month. 🙂
“The September Moon is called the Harvest Moon or Corn Moon because this is the time to finish harvesting the corn and other crops before Winter. The bright moonlight gives farmers a little extra time to harvest their crops before the first day of Fall. “~sfgate.com
Nikon Df| Nikkor 200-500mm| Delkin Digital Film| PS CC 2015.5
More to come…
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