October 8, 2022 moon photo.

[usonian]

This is the best of the bunch. The moon had to clear some clouds, and was quite colorful when low, but I usually have lots of air turbulence here, ridges and ravines and thermals, so I waited a bit. Voila. Take pics when the air is clear and steady!

No foolin' about the turbulence.
Often stars and planets near the horizon will "dance" like a UFO with a drunken pilot. It's quite the sight.



Just one pass of sharpening and I underexposed a bit so that the highlights wouldn't block up.

🌝 ENJOY! 🌝

[elleng]

1. Bueno!

Mine, while rising:

[usonian]

3. Good one. And after going through the photos, I looked outside and it got cloudy!

In an interesting way.

[elleng]

5. Interesting, as usual.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. This is wonderful, my dear usonian! Love the details.

When you underexpose, you don't lose the details which would otherwise be blasted into nothing. Well done!

I really wanted to join the happy throng tonight, but couldn't, since the clouds had other ideas! Oh well.

I enjoy shooting the waning gibbous moon too. In fact, I often prefer it to the full moon, since the craters are much more visible when in the gibbous phase.

Here's an example:



It was taken December 21, 2021, the Solstice Moon.

[usonian]

4. Great. You made it blush!

My timing was great tonight.

[NJCher]

6. I saw that, too!

The moon floating through those feathery clouds (photo 3. What a moment. So glad you captured this.

[usonian]

8. Thanks.

I was experimenting with ISO settings. That shot captured the mood. It's just a bit brighter than the visual impression, but it shows off some nice detail. Happy that you like it.

[sprinkleeninow]

7. What variey of cheese izzit? 🤔

Forgive me! Inna silly mood.

Better'n way bummed out and cussing 'bout circumstances...

[P.S. Very cool capture! 👊]

[usonian]

9. It WAS cheddar. When it was just rising.

Cameras do fun stuff with color. I try to keep the colors as "true" as possible.
And the color changes with elevation over the horizon.



I have some pretty heavy-duty hobbies that I could spend even more time on (I'm retired), and I dropped some that I just can't spend any time on. Keeping busy helps me tune out some of the din. It's not that I'm ignoring facts. Just not letting them dwell. I try to post positive and supportive stuff here. (besides the photos and funny stuff)

I spent most of the day taking more manzanita photos. I have an arboretum's worth of them here. Beautiful plants.

Control what you can control.
Influence what you can influence.
Don't let the bastards wear you down.
Non Illegitimi Carborundum.

[sprinkleeninow]

10. Cheddah! 😉 Lookit that photo!!

Gonna check out them manzanita.

I know the name, but the look is not in front of me.

What HD hobbies did you lay aside if I'm not so presumptuous to ask?

I do it to myself. Get emotional over so much heart rending stuff taking place in my personal world and beyond.

Some of my 'counsel' admonished me to cool it.

[usonian]

12. I don't have time for woodworking, nor electronics

beyond keeping the computers running. I used to build them before there were home computers. I still have the boards. I would like to build electronic projects with raspberry pi computers but I am booked solid. Other stuff? I forgot

Oh, I used to grow lots of roses, but not here. They are candy to deer. Maybe elsewhere.

I just repair stuff, of necessity.

I'll post some manzanita photos. Later. I didn't want to spoil the nice mood in this thread, but sure, some things are horrific. Nearby.

Warning: heart wrenching.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/104030106
How to make things better? Working on it. That's for another thread.

Phone cameras let you edit quite a bit. If it's art, OK.

[sprinkleeninow]

13. Woodworking. My father-in-law was into that even before he retired.

Made furniture at first, then carvings. Water fowl primarily. He turned out some really nice figures. Duck, loon, others. He made a large pelican for us. I donated it and all else we had when my husband died. Dad carved a very nice plaque for the church community they were members of in CT.

I think I used manzanita branches for scenery props I made for a church fashion show I chaired back in the 70's.

The actual trees are lovely. I read some regarding their planting conditions on the east coast here.

You mentioned building computers. A high school buddy moved up to Massachusetts landing a position with DEC. He actually did build a computer while there. I don't remember the details.
I'm tech challenged. Just know enough to get by. And cause trouble.😁

[sprinkleeninow]

11. One of my phones I use to take shots of pretty sunsets have a feature to 'colorize' the photo.

I did do dat. Pinks pinkier, blues bluer and like that. Saved them and shared with some of my buddies.
Wuz dat cheatin'? 🤔 🤭

[mnhtnbb]

15. I did not get the orange color in the rising

tonight. That could be because the Moon has to get quite a bit above the horizon before it clears the trees in the spot where it was rising tonight at my house.

When I lived in a high rise apartment (17th floor) in downtown Raleigh, my apartment faced east. I used to get a gorgeous view of the Moon changing color from orange to bright light some nights when it was rising. And the sunrise, dawn color changes, were marvelous.

[usonian]

16. I had low clouds at moonrise.

So who knows what was going on. No wildfires lately that I know of. It got cloudy later in the night, as shown above. I have mountains on both sides of the ridge for background. Hence, my penchant for wide-angle lenses.

[mnhtnbb]

14. Lovely!

[Nictuku]

17. Absolutely Gorgeous!

Thank you for sharing.

[usonian]

18. Thank you! I had to wait for the moon to clear some clouds tonight (Sunday)

so I will try to do better tonight, official Hunter's Moon.
Unofficial Hunter's Moon here:

https://democraticunderground.com/1036107431