[Leica] Moonrise over Quartzsite

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Excellent!  My wife and I were driving through Hernandez NM one evening 
and there was a full moon rising.  I tried to find the cemetery and 
couldn't, but against her (always good) warnings I took a few photos 
anyway.  They were really, really bad.  Unlike these.

Ken

On 1/30/2014 6:23 PM, Aram Langhans wrote:
> Not quite Ansel Adams, but it was interesting.  These were taken about two 
> weeks ago in the massive BLM land around Quartzsite where hundreds of 
> thousands of campers descend on the poor town for a few weeks.
>
> View Large, Please
>
> The moon not quite up yet.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7788.jpg.html
>
> I was trying to line up a shot with the trailers we were in, when my 
> sister-in-law and her dad came around the corner, flashlights blaring and 
> I got this.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7785.jpg.html
>
> What I really wanted was this:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7786.jpg.html
>
> but I actually like the first one better.
>
> OK.  moon is up now.  Let's see if I can get stars and moon, too.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7731.jpg.html
>
> And I noticed the shadows being cast by the moon, so tried to capture 
> those, too.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7746.jpg.html
>
> It was fun, if not cold.
>
> All exposures about 30 seconds.  The first three I also used a flashlight 
> to paint the cactus and the trailers.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Aram
>
>
>
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
>   
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