Fun with the Moon
Categories: Photography, Photographs, Weather, Work, snow, coffee
More moon photos! I cropped the first one and played a bit with the color for fun. The second is cropped to show off the various other objects visible around the moon during the eclipse. I love how the light changed as the eclipse progressed and regressed. Just amazing really. I’m also still incredibly happy that I was inspired to find my tripod… (I blame Mike.) More cool night photos may happen now.
The green reflection in some of the photos? It was caused by my UV filter. It didn’t occur to me to take it off. Apparently this is a common side-effect of leaving on the UV filter when taking photographs of points of light. The earlier photos didn’t have as intense a light source as the last bunch I took of the moon emerging out of the eclipse. I admit it, I’m lame and use my UV filter primarily as a protective shield for my lens.
Oh, Very Happy Friday to all of you! Buon Weekend! Hurray! I think I may have lost Thursday this week but I’m not sure. Hopefully it won’t reappear in the future to make another week longer… that is unless it picks a week I’m on vacation.
I did survive the week though and for that I thank my lucky stars. And my unlucky ones too because they weren’t too horrible this week. I did make the big french press of coffee this morning instead of the little single-serve press but I think it was a good decision. I *know* that it was good coffee. I felt vaguely on top of things when I shut down the work laptop this evening. Monster Cat was later rather than earlier (in the day that is) most of the week but I have some ideas that I want to play with this weekend so that next week’s Monster Cat episodes are posted first thing in the morning instead of at lunch.
Most importantly, at least to me, is that it snowed today. We got about 2 inches of accumulation then a bunch of misty wet in the afternoon. We might get a little more snow overnight and tomorrow but the radar isn’t promising. Still, it was fun to shovel the walks this afternoon and the world is a better place when it’s covered with snow.
More than anything I want more free time… specifically free time when I’m not already mentally spent and exhausted. Seriously.
tags: lunar eclipse, moon, photographs, photography
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
:) Now I must say… these are really nice… I am still shooting with my 6.3MP Canon Digial Rebel and beginning of thinking of having an affair with a 40D. The thought of it is unnaturally exciting… just think of the additional cropping! Anyway… I found an old Canon T-Mount 80-300mm lens at a tag sale… new and thought it said EOS… I am going to buy an adapter so I can be as cool (almost) as you. We’ll see… Hope you’re having a great weekend!!!
-Mike