Here by Glimpses Known

[wayfaringwordhack]

The moon is once more setting in a place and at a time where I can see it. As Julien observed, it is odd to have the crescent at the top and bottom of the moon, instead of on the side.* Julien explained a few things about the camera--I've told you all before that I'm a camera dummy, and what he tells me tends to go in one ear and out the other--and then turned me loose to photograph to my hear's content. I stood in the street for an hour at least, tracking the moon's descent and experimenting with speeds, etc. I got this wonderful dramatic lighting (using the bracketing feature) just as the moon was ready to disappear behind Mont de la Ferme.

Ramadan Moon

* Not having the crescents to the right or left renders the French "la lune est une menteuse" [the moon is a liar] obsolete, a mnemonic device to tell the phase of the moon. When the moon makes a D (open to the left), it is waxing (croît, or growing, in French); and when it makes a C, it is waning (decroît).

Comments

[renakuzar.livejournal.com]

A lovely image for a lovely time.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[patchwork-prose.livejournal.com]

In every way, beautiful!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was rather tickled with the way it turned out. I'd like to snap a few more tonight, but I have a meeting about the dance association I belong to. I might just take my camera along. :P

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

What a BEAUTIFUL photo!

It's interesting how it's in a different position there than it is here. It opened to the left when I saw it last night.

What was really cool was that when I went to pick my daughter up from her night class, it was silver. By the time I returned home, it was gold. :)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

I just love it when the moon changes colors. Several years ago (eep, it's been a decade now!), I saw a blood red moon rise. It was enormous and stunning. I'd like to see something like that again in my lifetime. :)

[pjthompson]

Really lovely. And that's some handy moon lore--if I can remember it. :-)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I never think much of the lore; I just like to say, "La lune est une menteuse"! :P

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

That. Looks. Awesome!

Make an icon of it I can steal.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D I was playing with it in icon form yesty. Have a couple more, so I'll see what I can do. :D I'm going to take the camera down by the sea tonight, and see if I can get some more of it setting behind GT. I won't be able to get it setting in the sea, sadly, because GT is on our horizon. One of these nights, though, I'm going to catch it rising from the sea!:D

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

That sounds very cool!

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're a camera dummy alright...

Another stunning photo. Another piece of cover art for your writings :D

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I never said I didn't have a good eye and lots of patience. :D I just don't know how to set the dratted knobs. :P