That means it’s closer to the earth and is just that much larger than normal.
As I was driving home from my Saturday errands I saw the moon, huge, gorgeous moon, sitting down in a low valley between two mountains. I drove home as fast as I could, which put the moon on the other side of the smaller mountain and ran inside to get the boot for my tripod and then ran back outside to catch the moon as it came up over the other side of the mountain from where I first saw it. These pictures don’t do it justice, but I think they turned out real well all the same. I had fun playing with the white balance and the exposure length. I didn’t change any settings for the first picture. The second picture is a white balance adjustment. The others are exposure adjustments.
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Those are gorgeous Lisa! I’m glad you grab your camera in time.
I really can talk…I meant to say, I’m glad you grabbed your camera in time!
In 2007 I took my camera with me everywhere. I was trying to take at least one picture every day that year. It was quite the exercise. I still find myself wishing I was doing it in part so I’d at least have my camera with me when I see beautiful things. I was out taking pictures of the desert yesterday afternoon or I might not have known where my camera was to begin with.
This post is officially, and by a long shot, my most visited post ever. Almost 200 hits just today. Putting a link to it on Scientific American (see the link at the first of the post) really upped the stats.
Welcome to all the new viewers. Seja bem-vindo.
Now if I’d been in France, I bet I would have been able to get a picture like this one too.
Perigee moon from France!
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