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Good morning everyone,
Once again, we’re blessed with a Wednesday contribution from Bill! Wahoo!
January’s full Moon presented a perfect opportunity to capture a rare event, the full Moon rising behind Mt. San Antonio with downtown LA in the foreground. So I fired up the Prius and headed to Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area. Since the park technically closes at sunset, I parked on one of the local streets next to the park and walked up the hill. I set up my tripod on a ridge a bit south of where most of the photographers were as to not jostle for a view among the crowd. I arrived early enough to catch the Sun’s last rays reflecting off the buildings in downtown and the snow on the San Gabriels. As the Sun’s light began to fade the lights on the buildings in downtown LA began to come alive. The full Moon rose right over Mt. San Antonio as my planning app(Photopills) predicted, lighting up the remaining snow on the mountains. Enough wispy clouds were present to be lit up by the Moon as it climbed into the sky.
The snowcapped San Gabriel mountains glow in pink behind downtown LA as the sun sets into the Pacific.
As the sun has set the lights of the buildings in downtown LA begin to flicker on with the purple snow of the San Gabriel mountains as a backdrop.
The Moon begins it’s rise from behind Mt. San Antonio.
The half risen Moon lights LA as the sunlight fades. The Moon looks bigger at the horizon since it’s viewed relative to known features.
The fully risen moon lights up the clouds as it shines over the lights of downtown LA.
The fully risen Moon lights up the snowy San Gabriel mountains as the lights of downtown LA light up the foreground in this zoomed shot.
Mary G
Beautiful, Bill!
Baud
So pretty.
JPL
Lovely,
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G:
@Baud:
@JPL: Thanks much.
Just a reminder, if you like my work consider supporting it via my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/BillinGlendaleCA.Ā You’ll be the first to see my photos.
mrmoshpotato
Very nice.
(Best viewed while listening to Nuclear Assault’s cover of Ballroom Blitz)*
*That’s just science.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato:
Heh, more like Weird Science.
HeartlandLiberal
Did you wear a mask respirator? How thick was that atmosphere with smog? Beautiful images, though. It is hard to take good pictures of the moon, I know from my many failures. Really like the shots where partial moon just starts picking over the mountain ridges.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Hehe, Danny Elfman.Ā He’s a bit different these days.
mrmoshpotato
OT – class action lawsuit ads!Ā Woo!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@HeartlandLiberal: The air quality was pretty good that evening.Ā We don’t have the smog like we used to in LA.Ā We still get haze since we’re on the edge of an ocean.
The trick to a good Moon picture is taking multiple shots at different exposure lengths, one for the background and one to capture the detail of the Moon and then combine those shots though the magic of Photoshop.
arrieve
Really wonderful pictures, Bill. You actually make me like LA, and since I grew up in Northern California, hating LA is pretty much a given.
MelissaM
Wow!
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
You should tell them about the sweet model shots.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@arrieve: Thanks.Ā I’ll put up some more sunset pics and seal the deal. //
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MelissaM: Thanks.
@zhena gogolia: Heh, that might win Baud over.Ā I took almost 600 shots on that shoot.
laura
That a bit of alright BillinGlendale! I was catching a Wang Chung “To Live and Die in LA” vibe -noirish but modern.
TaMara (HFG)
Beautiful!
opiejeanne
Bill, those are great. I love LA.
I remember Kenny Hahn making paper airplanes out of his agenda papers and flying them into the audience during a County Board of Supervisors meeting. It was a summer morning field trip for my HS history class and he must have been as bored as we were, so he decided to entertain us.
J R in WV
Sweet work, BillinG, that last one zoomed in a little bit is my favorite.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@laura: I does have a dark vibe, but the the colorful lights brighten it a bit.
@TaMara (HFG): Thanks.
@opiejeanne: You know his daughter Janice is on the Board now, wonder if she does that?
@J R in WV:Ā Thanks, I agree.Ā I think the blending turned out the best on that shot.
Barb 2
That is an out of this world photoĀ – a sci to novel I just read in fact had a description of an alien planet with twin sins and pinkish sunsets!!!!