Once in a blue moon ..

 

A big fat full moon again tonight .. a super blue moon, no less!

 

Super - since it's so close to the Earth at the moment and blue because it's the 2nd full moon in a month!  Pretty rare and very cool.

 

Since we're solidly in middle age apparently and instead of going down the pub, fell asleep on the sofa, I got to shoot some pics from the back garden.  Bottom is just a max zoom - 400mm x 1.6 tele-convertor and cropped - on tripod with 10 second timer (looks like cable release is tucked away in wedding photo bag).

 

Top photo is our black cat, Bertie, a huge (7.5 kilo) rescue Bombay, doing his best to eclipse the moon, whilst sat on a shed roof, watching the bats and critters rustling below.

 

 

 

 

No time for excuses

 

Well the only bad thing about spending my time efficiently and getting stuff sorted is that I don't have much (any) to waste on photography.  It's a sad, sad state of affairs.  For the first time in probably all my DSLR years I have gone a whole month without taking a photo!  I am ashamed.

 

Still, the garden is nearly done and will no doubt provide quite a few more photos than before and the wedding photo processing from our wedding in May (!!) is finally done.  At some point I should get some new shots up and .. after 4 months of neglect, I can start processing my Thailand photos!!

 

Starting to plan the next big trip too, so no time to loose.

 

In the mean time, this wasp was irresistible this morning, sat on the window glass.  A heap of exposure compensation brought him/her to life and blew out the background and dirt on the window (more shame!).

 



Window wasp or miniaturised surveillance drone?
ISO5000, 105mm, f/16, 1/100s, +1.7ev, noise reduction

High ISO since I didn't have time for tripod-age (flash would have bounced off glass),
macro lens - of course, f/16 to get all the depth of field at such a close distance,
and a whole dump load of exposure compensation - dark subject on a light background - just manually judged from experience rather than using spot metering etc.