Photos &Steve Fisher 20 Mar 2011 08:35 am
Moon in March
- Last night we were reminded during our late night news that the moon was at its largest. It was in its closest axis to the earth, and would seem fuller than usual to us. So Heidi and I went out to take a look at 11pm. At first, in Manhattan we couldn’t see the moon and had no idea where to look for it (except up). Buildings blocked the view. We had to walk a block from our house to see it.
This was the view we had. The moon didn’t look very big.
And all my camera would record was a big white blob.
But we got to see it and headed back upstairs to our apartment.
I took a look on line, and sure enough Steve Fisher had sent his moon shots. Here’s what he wrote:
was not as clear as I’ve seen it on other nights, so the sharpness
isn’t really what I would have hoped for. But it was beautiful.
The star the night before surprised me, though. I was actually out
photographing (I almost said ‘shooting’ and realized how awful that
would have sounded) planes because the sky was mostly white with clouds.
But through the breaks in the clouds the sky was crisply clear and when I
focused on wonderfully visible stars, I was amazed at how well I could see them.
Then, cropping and enlarging the images later yielded some cool pix.
The star
Steve’s photo of the moon.
Today’s the vernal equinox, marking the first day of Spring. Too bad there’s no real way to photograph that, except metaphorically. (Lots of shots of new flowers etc.) The weather has turned nasty cold today to remind us that Winter was tough.
Talking about going out like a lion, check out Scenes from a Tsunami in today’s NYTimes. Three Japanese artists paint what they felt.
on 20 Mar 2011 at 8:48 am 1.Kellie Strøm said …
Something for you, Feininger’s wooden toys:
http://airforceamazons.blogspot.com/2011/03/city-at-edge-of-world.html
on 20 Mar 2011 at 9:15 am 2.Steven Hartley said …
This is great – I saw the full moon last night while I was at Basingstoke with friends after 3 and a half hours at the gym – it did seem very big from what I saw.
Although I saw the moon a lot since I didn’t get back home until midnight.
on 20 Mar 2011 at 10:36 am 3.Oscar Solis said …
Here in sunny California, I didn’t get to see the moon till about 8pm due to some clouds obscuring it. While it was certainly large and bright it seemed, at least to me, to be even larger the night before. Dunno why, tho…
Scenes from a Tatsumi were nice, cosidering the subject matter. I was especially glad to see the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, known as the “godfather” of realistic manga.
on 20 Mar 2011 at 3:51 pm 4.Oscar Solis said …
Re: Scenes from a Tatsumi: I meant Tsunami. Sorry about that.