{"id":937,"date":"2011-01-19T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=937"},"modified":"2011-01-19T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T13:00:52","slug":"reflected-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/reflected-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflected Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s reflected from the Moon. I&#8217;m not talking about the physical make up of the reflected light itself, I&#8217;m talking about the way Moonlight gives a distinct magical feel to a scene, especially when you add mist into the mix \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/moonlit_mist_650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-935\" title=\"moonlit_mist_650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/moonlit_mist_650.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/moonlit_mist_650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/moonlit_mist_650-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twenty four hours later and I was trying hard to ignore the Moon and get home for some sleep, and in the end I did manage to ignore the Moon; I could not however ignore the way Venus looked rising above the trees when I parked up outside the house. So, I grabbed the camera and tripod and took a few quick images, as I was doing so I was struck by how different again the light was reflected by Venus compared to the Moon. There was a thin layer of mist which diffused the light just enough to make Venus look much larger than it should have looked, I quite liked the effect though \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/19_1_11_650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-936\" title=\"19_1_11_650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/19_1_11_650.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/19_1_11_650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/19_1_11_650-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s reflected from the Moon. I&#8217;m not talking about the physical make up of the reflected light itself, I&#8217;m talking about the way Moonlight gives a distinct magical feel to a scene, especially when you add mist into the mix&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[160,133,164,206,49,33,233],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography","tag-eden","tag-eden-valley","tag-lake-district","tag-lakes","tag-mist","tag-moon","tag-venus"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}