Mark's Wildlife and Adventures Blog

January full Moon is called Wolf Moon, i took a few photos in RAW and took a photo of one of my Wolves too! It would be cool to know how to merge photos so i can make it more realistic but maybe i can learn that another day.



This one fiddled around with RAW editing.



And here is the Wolf.



Hope you enjoyed that. When i fly away the Moon will look different, almost upside down, the Constellation Orion looks that way too from the Southern Hemisphere which is very interesting. Iam looking forward to flying away soon yay!

I caught a few clear evenings where the Moon was Waxing towards Full, Full and the other day, Waning back to Half.

Waxing Moon 29th September 2009.



Full Hunters Moon using my Tripod.



Waning Moon 9th October 2009.



Moon and Jupiter - taken using my Tripod.



It was nice observing the Moon and Jupiter close together and using my camera on the Tripod for the first time when taking photos made the Moon less fuzzy.

Also i experimented adjusting the brightness and contrast and unsharp mask to make even sharper shots. I wonder what the Moon will look like next time its full after the rocket they fired into it?

Hope you enjoyed that sequence folks.

The Full Moon phase in March is called "Worm Moon" called that because the worms start to thrive when Spring wakes up, its also known as the "Spring Moon" - i like the latter better but its good to go by its Farmers Almanac.

I have been taking photos of it over a 10 day period where i saw it as a thin crescent to when it was half full and when it was totally full.

I did hope i could do each day but whats the chance of having 28 clear evenings in a row in the UK? lol it could happen! Here it is as a Crescent on 1st march. It was tricky getting the setting right with my Canon 1000D DSLR with the 70mm-300mm lens but the more i practised with it, the better i became which was good.

Crescent Moon - 1st March 2009.



2nd and 3rd March was overcast/Moon obscured.

Half Moon - 4th March 2009.



Just over Half Moon - 5th March 2009.



6th and 7th March was overcast/Moon obscured.

Three Quarter Moon - 8th March 2009.



9th and 11th March was overcast/Moon obscured.

Full Moon - 10th March 2009. (Totality was at 02:38am on the 11th.)



Using minus brightness and increased contrast to reduce the glare.




Hope you all enjoyed that as much as i did. Hopefully it will be clearer so i can catch nearly all 28 days including the after Full Moon.

I got up nice and early to take pics of the Full Moon as the sun was rising. I cant seem to get a very good close up shot but with practice i probably can, or i might need a stronger camera for that i suppose.

Pre Dawn darkness.



Dawn.



Full Moon cropped close from original image.



I might buy one of those telescopes one day then i can take pics of the Moon through that.