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My first attempt of a panoramic, of a lake in Wales. The lake looks nice and warm here but the wind nearly blew me over!
A small bay on Lake Tahoe's northeastern shore. Very clear water with an emerald green cast. Camera: Nikon N65, Promaster 28-200 lens, F22, 1/6, Polarizer Filter.
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Crystal Clear Performance at St Bartholomew's, Sydenham.
Maureen Lyle, Leon Conrad, Greg Tassell.
Photo credit: Andre Stefano
Photographing the Super Blood Wolf Moon was a real comedy of errors. I marched outside with my tripod, lenses, and warm clothes at 11:40pm and it really didn’t take long for my hands to start screaming in pain from the epic cold (by Maryland standards, anyway; between the low temperature and the gusty winds, the wind chill was in the low single digits, if not 0 F). I started with my paparazzi lens and it was a bit of a debacle because it requires manual focusing and…well, let’s just say I’m overdue for a visit to my ophthalmologist. My prescription is wildly out of date and my vision’s not so great because of that, especially at night. Therefore, that was a failure.
I switched over to my regular telephoto lens so I could rely on autofocusing. By and large that worked, although my stiff hands and inability to clearly see the buttons complicated things as I attempted different settings to maximize the clarity of the moon. Even with my tripod, there was camera shake from me depressing the shutter, so I sprinted inside for my remote control…only to realize that the battery was dead. I went back to manually depressing the shutter and trying to avoid shivering too much to reduce camera shake. It didn't really work; none of the photos are crystal clear.
I also gave my point-and-shoot Nikon with the powerful digital zoom a shot. For whatever reason—I don’t know if it was my shivering or the low light of the moon or what—the camera really struggled to autofocus. Half the time I couldn’t even find the damn moon in the viewfinder. I was fumbling, hitting buttons I didn’t even mean to hit. The camera was like, “lol wut no.” So that, too, was a bit of a loss.
Anyway, about 95% of the photos I snapped were a loss. A few turned out okay (not great--just semi-okay) and a few have flaws are intriguing. Even without fabulous photos, and even despite the cold, the whole experience was worth it because that moon sure was striking!