The rising of the almost exactly Full Moon on July 16, 2019, the 50th Anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. The scene is looking over a green field of wheat for a minimalist landscape. A few hours before this moonrise, the Moon was partially eclipsed as seen over Europe, Africa and Asia, just about everywhere but here in North America. This is a single exposure with the Sony a7III through the A&M 80mm apo refractor at f/6 (for 480mm focal length), taken after I shot a 6-minute 4K video of the moonrise from horizon to this point. This is shot from the gravel pit hill south of home.
The almost Full Moon beside Jupiter as they rise out of clouds and are reflected in Maskinonge Pond at Waterton Lakes National Park on June 16, 2019. I shot this during a photo workshop I was conducting that night. This was a very contrasty scene requiring HDR techniques (what I used here) or luminosity mask blending. This is a 5-exposure HDR stack to record the dark foreground and bright sky, merged with Adobe Camera Raw with ghost removal off – with it on it left patches of high noise areas where the image came from only one exposure. Vignette applied with Zone System Express, noise reduction with Neat Image, and a soft Orton glow applied with Luminar Flex.
A misty moonlit evening at Maskinonge Pond at Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada, with the Moon and Jupiter in the sky. Rain earlier that day made the air very humid adding the mist over the water this evening, This is a single exposure with the Nikon D750 and Sigma 24mm lens. I shot this during one of my nightscapes workshops, during the 2019 Waterton Wildflower Festival.
