Chasing the Moon

So the end of August brought a "Blue Moon" around the Earth and I did my best to hang out in some places and work on some shots of the moon but also to put it into the context of a photo with out having to go to Photoshop and work the magic to make it in there.  Of course you can do a great moon shot then have it appear really huge on a landscape of any kind and that can really be fun.   I may go and try that when I have some more time.

So on Friday 8/31/12 that is when the moon was full for the Blue Moon.  I went out to a county road here in Polk County a few miles from my home.  One there would be no street lighting there and there was some very good open spaces to shoot through and still have some foreground texture if I wanted it, which I did.  I got some decent shots from that night and will put one out in another posting soon.

The one I am sharing this time is from the next morning I got up around 5:30 and went down to Riverfront park here in Salem.  Did some shooting of the pedestrian bridge (cool thing to have) and then some more shots with the moon in the sky looking West into West Salem hills.  This shot I thought was good as I have an early morning fisherman on the Willamette River, the west hills covered with trees and the water tank along with the moon working its way to setting.  I only noticed while working on the edit of this that the moons reflection is at the very bottom of the photo.  I did not notice that due to some vegetation near where I was shooting.  Need to take a little more time when prepping the shot!

Thanks for stopping in and feel free to send me any comments!  Enjoy!

Tim