Trampas Peak Eclipse
The full “Snow Moon” balances on Trampas Peak (12,175′) during a lunar eclipse, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Northern New Mexico. The “Snow Moon“, also known as the “Hunger Moon“, is the Native American name of the full moon in February, the time of year when the heaviest snows fall and winter life is often difficult. This is a single, real, image (not a composite or “photoshopped”).
The Story Behind the Photo
A full moon during an eclipse was about to rise over the summit of Trampas Peak (12,175 ‘) in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. If I did my calculations correctly my tripod was in the right place for me to photograph the moon sitting on the summit of Trampas Peak. One small problem though, clouds! Read More
What is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse?
When the full moon rises in the side lobes of the Earth’s shadow (known as the penumbra ) a penumbral eclipse occurs. Penumbral eclipses are hard to distinguish as the sunlight on the moon is only slightly diminished to that of a regular full moon.
Read MoreWhy does the moon look so big in the photo?
How do they do that — you know make the moon look so big in the photo?
Frequently I am asked if a photograph is “photoshopped”. I understand the motivation behind this question since photography today has many examples where part of one image is artificially added to the original image on the computer, in Adobe Photoshop, or other image processing software. The “technical” term these days is a “composite” image.
The moon photographs I present are not composites. My photographs are single images where the moon is in the exact position in the frame was when I took the image, and the size I saw it through my lens. So why then does the moon look so big?Read More