The MOON!

Sunday night my mom calls me and tells me to run outside and photograph the moon. Knowing she would want to see a picture, I ran out and snapped a few off. They came out alright, at best.



Moon (1.8.11) by FLWill, on Flickr


about an hour or so later I went to let my dog out and brought my camera and tripod with me. Good thing I did because there was about 5-10 minutes of this beautiful moon ring!



Moon Ring (1.8.11) by FLWill, on Flickr




For those that don't know, a moon ring is moon light (which, as we all know, is reflected sunlight) that is refracting off of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The hexagonal shape of the crystals makes for a perfect ring "around" the moon.

nice shots!!

Nice capture Will!. The ring makes it very interesting.

Thank you both! The ring was GIGANTIC! I wish I could've captured it in a way that conveyed the shear size of it. Very humbling experience to say the least.

Definitely makes it stand out, after a while shots of just the moon get boreing.

I agree. When my mom told me to go take a shot of the moon I was less than enthused to get off the couch lol

I only have the boring shots od the moon. I blame my mum getting me off the sofa

Right then, i need to blame my mum for these boring shost of a nearly full and crescent moon !

Here's my latest forays into shooting the moon.
This one was done during the "blue hour" with a 70-300 VR afs Nikkor at 300MM.



Same Lens, but due to the differences needed to get the moon and the rest of the scene lit, I actually took two exposures , one of the moon, one if the overall scene, and combined both.