Impossible. Part one.

None of these look quite like it did to the naked eye.  Impossible to capture, for an amateur like me, anyways, who's lost the manual for her camera and knows nothing of F-stops and aperatures.  Fun to mess around and try, though, and something to do during the several hours it took for the earth's shadow to cross over the moon's surface.  Others did too, I see, with far more success than I.  Kelly expressed my thoughts exactly about how I felt about my fumbling around, in the dark, both literally and figuratively, with the camera and its settings last night: "Because it's there." and  "Sure, everyone else has tripods. Everyone else has expensive cameras. There's really no point in my taking these, much less posting them.....But I did have fun..."

More cool ones, and here.

I'm glad others got out and saw "the show" last night, too! If it hadn't been for a brief mention of the eclipse the previous evening on CBC radio, it would have likely occured completely unnoticed by us.  Instead, we were able to plan and make the most of it, eating our dinner, leftover chicken and rice soup, around the fire, toasting sourdough bread and marshmallows over the flames, to go with it.

Fire watching, yet another thing I find impossible to capture the way it really is:

Comments

[Elizabeth]

I think your photos are amazing. The lunar eclipse could have been seen here in the UK too, but, as always, it was a cloudy night so the moon was totally obscured. B*gger!

[Janine]

Beautiful! - I wish I could have seen it - we had thick fog over here :-(

[TD wool design]

recently began this blog, and dusted off the camera. do you think i can find the manual? seems i used to move it from place to plcae every other day. now, it's vanished. such is my life. i too, had trouble capturing the beauty of event. much better in person. sounds like your family enjoyed a lovely evening. that's the best part.

[Ellen]

Ooooh! These came out better than mine!

[jean]

what a perfect evening!

[Elizabeth]

Those photos are great. I had the same thoughts as you did about photographing and posting ( I didn't end up posting mine) But I was drawn to it like I am any full moon, especially with snow on the ground making the most beautiful lighting in the world. I'm still trying to capture the apple tree outside my bedroom window on a full moon night. The shadow of the gnarly branches underneath the tree look like the tree's roots. Magic.

[ange]

I like the photos! I missed seeing it here, but remember when I was a kid and there was an eclipse. I at out all night and watched...

[Celina]

Thank you so much for sharing those beautiful pictures. The frost ones are Amazing. We watched part of the eclipse here, and you could hear voices all up and down the street as we all came out in the cold.

[katiecl]

Wow, I've never seen anything like that! The frosty pictures are breathtaking.

[tesla314]

Thank you for the compliment of linking to my eclipse photo. :)