The unintended consequence of going from the air conditioning into the full humidity of a warm Arkansas summer night to capture the moon and its pond reflection.
Setting sun, crescent moon
Tonight’s sunset as seen from suburban Ferndale, Arkansas.
Cranes in the moonlight
Construction crane booms point toward the nearly full moon. They are part of the project to replace the Broadway Bridge linking Little Rock and North Little Rock.
Crescent moon
When we’re on the road, I always keep a camera at hand. And surprisingly there are times when the old iPhone 4 can do better than the little Sony camera. This was one of those times – twilight and shooting a target 240,000 miles away out of the passenger window at (ahem) the speed limit. It took a more than a dozen shutter clicks to finally get the moon in focus while the trees of the Arkansas Delta rushed by.
Serenity now!
Just one of those evenings where the only things to say are “oooooh” and “aaaaah.”
And the sharp-eyed observers in Greenbrier, Arkansas, found a planet hiding in the pixels. Props to @AstroScanObs!
Lunar eclipse
As much as we hate getting up early on the weekend, the bright moon beamed its own wakeup call through the unshaded window just before 5 a.m. — just in time for us to see the show. And what a show it was! The composite below begins at 5:21 a.m. CDT and the last frame was taken at 6:07 a.m., just as the sun was rising. The full eclipse was too faint to see in the dawn-bright sky.
Weekly photo challenge: Silhouette
“Silhouette” has come up again as a theme for the weekly photo challenge. (The last time was in October 2012.) And again, we turn to our nearest neighbor, using its light to throw other objects in silhouette.
- Other silhouettes we liked from this week’s challenge:
Simple – http://agent909.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/silhouette-landscape-portraitand-street-photography/ - Sunset – http://lipglossandabackpack.com/2014/08/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
- Almost nothing but net – http://ropmann.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette/
- Crows and fog – http://piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/weekly-photo-challenge-silhouette-2/
- Floral – http://theplayground.me/2014/08/15/yikes-its-been-a-while/
Mini-moon
The January 16 full moon may have been the smallest of the year, but it still put on a big show. Managed to snap a shot just before it disappeared below the horizon, and just before we disappeared down the road for morning commute.
After the Beaver Moon
November’s full moon is known as the Beaver Moon. Though taken two days after its full stage, the moon is still beautiful before setting for the day.
The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface 