The Super Blood Moon

Posted on 4 October, 2015 by Eric

I don’t know why it took me so long to post it, but here’s my favorite among the shots I took of last Sunday’s supermoon lunar eclipse (near the deepest part of the eclipse):

We didn’t have time to run off anywhere for a unique local point of interest in the frame, I shot this straight off the deck over our garage. Still, I like it — even with (maybe because of) the traces of clouds below the moon. The clouds swept through just after the eclipse started, and I was afraid they’d ruin the whole show, but they moved out just in time.

Chimney Rock, captured!

Posted on 10 August, 2011 by Eric

If you’ve dropped by this blog more than a time or two in the past, you likely know I’m a bit of an archaeology buff. Here’s a shot through my 60mm crystal ball of Chimney Rock, in southern Colorado:

The Chimney Rock Archaeological Area is home to some ancestral puebloan ruins, nearly 1000 years old. They were built at this site due to the two rock pinnacles in this image — every 18.6 years, the moon rises between the columns (the geometry is called a Major Lunar Standstill). If you’d like to see this event in person, there’s good news and bad news. Good news: the site has public viewing events for lunar standstill. Bad news: the next one won’t occur until 2022.

So patience is the key…

Perigee moon — January 10, 2009

Posted on 17 January, 2010 by Eric

We had a thin overcast for this event, so I couldn’t get as crisp a shot as I would have liked. To make the best of the situation, I opted for a hand-built HDR (i.e., photomontage of long-duration haze image & short-duration moon image).

Originally posted to the old blog on January 13, 2009; on Flickr over here.