Okay, no need for an interesting title, or much need for an introduction other than here are two photographs from today. The first is a misty bit of woodland from this mornings wander… And then the Moon over the Pennines this evening…
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Speeding along
This morning I got my camera gear ready for the ISS pass which I was cleverly notified of via Twitter, gone are the days of trying to work out when objects will be visible in the night sky, I just wait for the tweet 😉 Armed with the relevant information, wrapped in a couple of layers to ward off the cold winds which had developed over night I stepped outside around 0530hrs to get ready. The cloud was fairly high towards the East and was also flitting around the Moon…
Read MoreOur Own Devil
Following my post this morning of a few early morning photographs, I wondered how I could use one of them to incorporate the quote by Oscar Wilde we are each our own devil and we make this world our hell. So after a little photoshop work…
Read MoreDarker than normal
When I returned home this morning I was a little disappointed, I had intended having spent a while on the way home stopping off at various places for misty morning photographs. Sadly the weather wasn’t really suitable – being thick fog and black ice on the smaller roads. Next to where I park the car there is a small wooded area, the Moon was just descending towards the horizon and had dipped beneath the tree tops, I stood for a while looking at the way the Moon lit the scene…
Read MoreReflected Light
I took some photographs of the Moon yesterday illuminating some mist in the valley, and I found myself thinking about how much the Sun influences our lives. After all the light from the Moon illuminating that mist originated in the Sun, the light itself has a very different property when it’s reflected from the Moon. I’m not talking about the physical make up of the reflected light itself, I’m talking about the way Moonlight gives a distinct magical feel to a scene, especially when you add mist into the mix…
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