Bad Moon on the Rise
Harvest Moon revealing itself over the mountains overlooking Lake Okanagan. Press L for full page.
This is a composite of two shots: I superimposed the background night sky as a second shot since at 1/320 the background surrounding the moon was dead black as shown in the tree line. The moon and tree line portion of the shot is pretty much as taken.
I take this shot once a year as the Harvest Moon comes up over the lake directly in front of us so I can set tripod up on my balcony for the event. With the mountains only about 20km away and the moon 340,400 km away, the magnification of the moon by the 600mm against the closer tree line is amplified in what seems like an unnatural size difference.
Bad Moon on the Rise
Harvest Moon revealing itself over the mountains overlooking Lake Okanagan. Press L for full page.
This is a composite of two shots: I superimposed the background night sky as a second shot since at 1/320 the background surrounding the moon was dead black as shown in the tree line. The moon and tree line portion of the shot is pretty much as taken.
I take this shot once a year as the Harvest Moon comes up over the lake directly in front of us so I can set tripod up on my balcony for the event. With the mountains only about 20km away and the moon 340,400 km away, the magnification of the moon by the 600mm against the closer tree line is amplified in what seems like an unnatural size difference.