2012.05.06 Supermoon rise over Currimundi Lake

2012.05.06 - On Saturday (May 5) at 11:35 p.m. EDT, the moon will officially turn full. And only 25 minutes later the moon will also arrive at perigee, its closest approach to Earth — a distance of 221,802 miles (356,955 kilometers) away.  The effect of this coincidence is a stunning skywatching sight called the "supermoon."

In fact, this month's perigee is the closest of any perigee in 2012 (they vary by about 3 percent, because the moon's orbit is not perfectly circular). The result will be a 16 percent brighter-than-average full moonaccompanied by unusually high and low tides this weekend and into the new week.

I ventured out this evening to catch the sunset and the rise of this Supermoon from the Currimundi bridge overlooking Currimundi Lake...

These were my sights...

Magic hour over Currimundi Lake

(that time when the sun in below the horizon but it is not yet dark)

The Supermoon above the treeline

My 'long exposure' attempt - post processing blew out the moon,
but I liked the pretty flower shape :)

'Long exposure' when the camera shutter stays open an blurs movement - 

great to capture moving lights like traffic.

Namaste...

2012.03.02 Wurtulla Sunset

Finally I glimpsed the sunshine through the lens again... no two doubts about it, I have been sleeping in - well deserved I thought, but missing any glorious sunrises that have been peeping through the clouds.  Holidays on the Goldie in a week will be good timing to catch some glorious Autumn sunrises... but for tonight, I spied the sunset and I had to stop and play.  There were some nice orange tones, with a clean background, but I wanted to play with the silhouettes - shapes of trees and grass darkened in the brightness of the Sun's presence.


These were taken looking southwest over the Baroona Canal at Wurtulla, hope you enjoy...

TREE OF LIGHT

 SUNSET OVER BAROONA CANAL, WURTULLA QLD

SPIKEY WEED SILHOUETTES

MY FAVE OF THE DAY - "NATURES LIGHTBULB" 

AS THE SUN SETS...

Magic tip: the orange tones were only a band across the horizon as seen above, 

but by zooming in on the coloured parts you capture just that area which gives 

the illusion of the whole sky being like that!

The sun now below the horizon, that time just before the 

'magic hour' looking up to the sky through the trees...

Welcome to Autumn...

Namaste