After quite a few hours later, we were finished and I walked her and her daughter outside to her car and looked out at the bright moon. It was beautiful! Not quite a full moon, but pretty close. We had slight clouds over the moon giving it such a beautiful glow of colors and the stars were brightly shining as well. So I said my goodbyes to them and rushed back in the house to grab my camera and tripod.
I turned off all the lights outside and shut the curtains to the house (heaven forbid the family goes without lights for just a few dang minutes so I can get a good shot). Good things the curtains are nice and thick ;)
Unfortunately I don't live in an open field or on a desolate road where there's no light at all around me, and I didn't have time to get in the car and drive to the river (darn....that would have been an awesome shot!). So I had to deal with my surroundings and take what I could take from my open back yard porch.
If anyone is a constellation buff, can you tell me what the star constellation is on the right on these photos?
You can see a bigger version of these photos on my facebook account.
Beautiful picture! Looks like it could be Orion.
ReplyDelete~Cam