And yes, however lovely the gardens, water lilies and architecture are wherever work or pleasure travel have recently taken me, I breathe a sigh of relief when I get home to my lovely lake views and my own bed & kitchen again :-). I’d been saving this May morning moon-set shot for either sky lights, or city lights, but I like how it pairs with the shot above.
OK, so I went for this fabulous dawn / sunrise walk in Rome last week, with various buildings framing the setting moon wonderfully as the sky lightened. Couldn’t help myself, just kept taking photos. Yes, you’ll see the moon in each of the photos below, if you look closely enough or tap and enlarge. Don’t hate me if I’ve again gone overboard on this whole beauty thing 🙂
During an early-morning walk in Barcelona a few weeks ago, I savored the lovely sliver of moon fading in the sky as the sun came closer and closer to the horizon 🙂
A blue moon is the second full moon in one month. This image (above) was taken at 5:27am on Thursday the 31st of August. The one below was taken at precisely 06:16:16 the same morning, and no I didn’t time it that way, I just happened to be up between “sits,” of which the first each day this week has begun at 5:45 and the last has ended a bit after 9pm – ideal at this time of year to view the setting and rising of both sun and moon when skies are clear. In all of the images in this post, you’ll find the full moon or the moon one day past full. All were taken either late in the evening / at night, or early in the morning, on the 30th and 31st of August, with a few also early on the 1st of September – yesterday, my last full day here on Star. Advantages to living (if only briefly) on a very small island include that it’s quite easy to watch both the sunrise and the sunset over the water, which means lovely reflections in the water and even possibly-nice panorama shots that show both the rising sun and setting moon, etc. In some of the latest-morning shots, you may need to enlarge the photo to see the moon still holding out low on the horizon even after the sun has risen above the water opposite it. This post celebrates these blessings on the day I’ll boat over the mainland then by various means convey myself back to Amsterdam, where I expect land early Sunday the 3rd and plunge directly into a full work week on the 4th. I’ll try to keep the daily posts going, I promise :-).
Here’s to a Happy New Year 2022. This is probably me signing off for a while despite a remaining queue of lovely canal and urban-garden images. Look forward to them once 2022 has shown us more of itself. 🙂
Of course no photo can ever do justice to the full moon setting as the sun rises on the other side of the horizon, but perhaps this gives you just a sense?
Of course no photo can ever do justice to the full moon setting as the sun rises on the other side of the horizon, but perhaps this gives you just a sense?
(so much world, so little time....) 