photos of the moon

Photos of the lunar eclipse.

by frogpondsrock on June 27, 2010

in Fun,Hope,Joy,photography

I adore the moon, absolutely love it. The sight of a full moon makes me shiver with happiness. I had taken a couple of photos of the moon last night in preparation for the lunar eclipse and they were horrible, boring, lifeless photos of a white globe in the sky.

Luckily for me and for you as well, I have a very clever and supremely patient daughter who talked me through the aperture and shutter speed settings on the camera. I was pressing buttons and twirling knobs and nothing was changing when voila I magically found the right combination of sideclick,press and twirl and the aperture and shutter speed revealed themselves to me.

So without further ado and a great big round of applause to Veronica, she of the sleepless nights and cloudy skies, here are my photos of the lunar eclipse over Tasmania.

and for those of you who this technical stuff means anything  I used a Nikon D90, freehand with a 200mm lens, aperture of 8 and shutter speed of 800.

The full moon just before the eclipse.

The beginnings of the eclipse.

It is all happening by now and my nose was very very cold, luckily for me I could keep on racing back inside to thaw out.

This last shot was the moon just before sunrise at about 6.30 am on a frosty Sunday morning.

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Blogher! Snogher! Schmogher!

by frogpondsrock on June 8, 2009

in blogging,friendship,real life

Each year as the Blogher conference gets closer, I wish that there was something similar here in Australia. Given the low profile of blogging in Australia and the even lower financial returns, I doubt that a conference on the scale of  Blogher would be financially viable.

But, that doesn’t stop me from thinking about the possibility of an annual or even biennial bloggers conference in Australia. mmm… A bit of organising here,a bit of corporate sponsorship there, the hiring of a venue and “Robert’s your Mother’s Brother.”

In other news, I have been walking around the house quietly going, “Squeeee” with excitement. Mum and I are going to visit my brother who lives on the New South Wales, central coast. Aaaaand my little brother actually lives quite close to Tiff from My Three Ring Circus. Soooo Tiff and I have organised to meet up for lunch. At Tiff’s house. WOOT!!!! I don’t mind missing the blogher conference at all now. Not one bit.

So at the moment all is well in the Frogpondsrock household. YAY

moonrise

view-from-the-balcony

moonwashed

where-are-the-batwings

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