Last September I was in Carmel during the lunar eclipse. In the quiet early morning hours with camera pointed at the sky, I stood in a parking lot trying to capture the main event.
Since I was out there for a while, I had time to experiment and found that I could make letters out of the eclipsing moon and actually got a pretty good rendition of my initials: AVO. I call those photos my lunar letters and I was looking forward to getting more letters during this recent eclipse, but the sky was too cloudy.
Back in Carmel, I also pointed my camera toward the stars. Jupiter was particularly bright then with the star Antares just below, so I practiced making star pictures also. In the above photo Jupiter is the higher one with the white light; multi-colored Antares is below.
What I love about what this photo shows is that Jupiter is white because planets reflect the sun's light, having none of their own, while stars produce their own light, which is why Antares has so many colors. You can click on the photo to make the image bigger. During this recent lunar eclipse, the sky was too overcast to experiment making star patterns.
Since I was out there for a while, I had time to experiment and found that I could make letters out of the eclipsing moon and actually got a pretty good rendition of my initials: AVO. I call those photos my lunar letters and I was looking forward to getting more letters during this recent eclipse, but the sky was too cloudy.
Back in Carmel, I also pointed my camera toward the stars. Jupiter was particularly bright then with the star Antares just below, so I practiced making star pictures also. In the above photo Jupiter is the higher one with the white light; multi-colored Antares is below.
What I love about what this photo shows is that Jupiter is white because planets reflect the sun's light, having none of their own, while stars produce their own light, which is why Antares has so many colors. You can click on the photo to make the image bigger. During this recent lunar eclipse, the sky was too overcast to experiment making star patterns.
Today, I am going to remind myself to color and scribble outside of the lines and be open to life showing itself in unexpected ways.
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