Blue Moon

IPT

IPT

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So, have you guys taken advantage of this crazy full moon? The moonset here was timed nearly perfectly with sunrise so it made for some amazing moments! Lets see some shots of what you all had in your neck of the woods. I'll start by representing the far North!


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Some bonus shots from being out...

Denali and friends some several hundred miles away to the North...
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Downtown emerging from the ice fog....
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I took this right after midnight on New Years. There isnt any other cool subject around to give the photograph more appeal, but I just wanted to test out my lens on the moon :)

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yeah, we had two nice days then the clouds rolled in.

Grant, what focal length was that (is it cropped, w/ or w/o tele)? Oh, yeah your shooting with a cropped sensor too, right?
 
IPT said:
yeah, we had two nice days then the clouds rolled in.

Grant, what focal length was that (is it cropped, w/ or w/o tele)? Oh, yeah your shooting with a cropped sensor too, right?
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That is weird, I was sure I replied to this yesterday.

Canon 50D, so 1.6 x focal length, so it was taken around 640mm. I cropped about 15% I'd say although it's hard to tell.

Here is the original image, no crop.

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Wow - I was so engrossed with how it was playing with the light in the landscape I didn't really even think to take any real close-ups (that one I posted was cropped from another image). Those craters are crazy! Seems like there was an eclipse too that night. Blue Moon on New Years eve, one ~ every 19 years. Eclipsed Blue Moon on New Years eve, once ~ every 91 years!! http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=30&month=12&year=2009

Playing in the trees...
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Yeah, I guess so. If you like the outdoors, photog or not, it's great. Heck though, so is Utah, Montana, Cali, Washington, lots of other beautiful palces to be. What I really like about AK is the wildness of it, the extremes. It is still easy to "get away" from the masses. The weather can be extreme and I like that too. Nothing makes you feel more alive than a ferocious wind, bitter cold, a big Moose Staring you down, or having to wonder in there may be a Grizzly Bear around the corner as you're bombing downhill on your Mtn bike. It's not for everyone, but I love it. With this place either people love it or hate it.
 
bsharding1982 said:
Whats this moon thing you guys are talking about? We just have Gray all winter.
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Sounds like you and Wolerine were out of luck!! Seems to me that whenever the Aurora activity picks up we go into grey mode. In NY my dad was talking to someone from SouthEast AK. It was on a beautiful sunny day. He said the other guy was telling him that back home (AK) they called beautiful day like that a "cloud failure day". Thought that was pretty funny. Hey, if FLorida can get a forcast for snow and have frost in the mornings maybe you can get some clear night!! This AM going to work a pretty nice slightly less than half moon hung just above the treeline most of my drive in. Prettty :).
 
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