(These stills for the Nighttime challenge are from a video camera on zoom.)
Eclipse 2011 (1)
Eclipse 2011 (2)
Eclipse 2011 (3)
Ship all lit up – a drinking vessel or a booze cruise?
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great take on the challenge – and loved the ending “booze cruise” shot –
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Thanks!
That ship must have really powerful generators!
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The moon and darkness–my favorite things! 🙂 I am channeling my inner “bat!”
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Ooooooh! The vampire strikes again!
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Absolutely!
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Great shots, Col . . . full of spirits!
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Of every type, indeed!
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There’s poetry in those shots and a few ghost stories.
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Eclipses, in particular, have attracted a lot of writing!
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All big and lit up – no wonder moths get excited about the moon 🙂
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They get deeply annyoyed, though, that for some reason they can’t quite seem to reach it.
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the equivalent of “are we there yet?” “almost” ?
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Love those moon shots Col…..very evocative
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I also find them so! And the actual process from a ‘strangeness’ as the shadow touched, right through to the re-emergence, was quite fascinating.
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Perhaps the revellers on the vessel are re-enacting some primitive drinking ritual to ensure the moon’s re-emergence — it clearly worked!
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The only teensy weensy fault in that logic is that the ship blazed away in 2009 and the moon hid its face in 2011 …
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Mere detail, mere detail…
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Lovely! The moon is one of night time’s divine goddesses.
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And is extra interesting when going through ‘phases’ in fast motion!
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I like the eclipse shots, maybe that is what they are having on the booze cruise! 😉
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One wonders … 🙂
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great shots. have always wanted to experience an eclipse. Must be mighty odd to suddenly find yourself in darkness
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Nothing sudden about it. It creeps – and the light gets progressively creepier. One would think it would be the same as a part moon from full to new, but somehow it isn’t!
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oh dear, my dream has gone belly-up then!
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I love watching an eclipse. It’s something so simple but so amazing at the same time
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It sends those without any knowledge of astronomy into total heebies – as beloved by fiction writers from H Rider Haggard on.
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Love the night shots, Col 🙂
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There should be more of those. They have a lot of black in them which saves computer energy!
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Excellent eclipse shots, Col! The “drinking vessel” made me smile. I do miss seeing those ships from my window, now that we’re in Florida.
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You always seem to have compensation from your own window!
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most unusual, interesting tho xxx
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Doesn’t happen often, indeed!
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