Luca Vanzella
2020 08 04 Moonrise
I have shot August moonrises from the 156 St overpass above Yellowhead freeway many times but this was perhaps the cleanest sky ever for this location (the day before had a significant rain storm which cleaned the air nicely). While Alister shot an HDR timelapse and Vivek tried some handheld camera work, I captured this multi-composite spanning 32 minutes (22:28 to 23:00 MDT).
The bottom of the frame is constrained by the roof of an auto dealership but the distant horizon can be glimpsed silouhetted by the rising Moon at the lower left, just right of the Hat at Five Corners. From this viewpoint, the Moon clipped the Epcor Tower and then glided over the Edmonton Tower (displaying the perpetual aurora video to no one in particular), the JW Marriott Tower (housing the NHL's West Playoffs bubble players including the soon to be bounced Edmonton Oilers), the Stantec Tower (reminding of a certain monolith) and the now rather short looking Manulife Tower (whose alternating glass facets reflected the deep twilight sky glow from the NW).
Before the Epcor Tower was built one could see the CN Tower from here, but a blinking glimpse of it remains as a reflection below the video screen on the Edmonton Tower.
2020 08 04 Moonrise
I have shot August moonrises from the 156 St overpass above Yellowhead freeway many times but this was perhaps the cleanest sky ever for this location (the day before had a significant rain storm which cleaned the air nicely). While Alister shot an HDR timelapse and Vivek tried some handheld camera work, I captured this multi-composite spanning 32 minutes (22:28 to 23:00 MDT).
The bottom of the frame is constrained by the roof of an auto dealership but the distant horizon can be glimpsed silouhetted by the rising Moon at the lower left, just right of the Hat at Five Corners. From this viewpoint, the Moon clipped the Epcor Tower and then glided over the Edmonton Tower (displaying the perpetual aurora video to no one in particular), the JW Marriott Tower (housing the NHL's West Playoffs bubble players including the soon to be bounced Edmonton Oilers), the Stantec Tower (reminding of a certain monolith) and the now rather short looking Manulife Tower (whose alternating glass facets reflected the deep twilight sky glow from the NW).
Before the Epcor Tower was built one could see the CN Tower from here, but a blinking glimpse of it remains as a reflection below the video screen on the Edmonton Tower.