{"id":1157,"date":"2012-11-29T07:38:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T14:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:14:29","slug":"photos-of-the-day-november-29-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2012\/11\/29\/photos-of-the-day-november-29-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day, November 29, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night as I drove home I thought that I would have a good shot at shooting the full moon. \u00a0However, as I drove home the mountains obscured the moon and after it was gone from sight I promptly forgot about it until it had risen higher in the sky than I wanted to photograph.<\/p>\n

This morning though, I got up early to get acclimated to the idea of getting up even earlier tomorrow to catch a flight to Phoenix to work and then spend the weekend.<\/p>\n

As I looked out the front window I saw the setting moon high in the sky over Albuquerque, and it seemed unusually bright for a setting moon.<\/p>\n

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It’s really tough getting the blue in the sky when you bring out the long lens and you can see from the following image.<\/p>\n

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By the time the moon was ready to set \u00a0the early morning light accomplished its task and washed the moon out of the night sky.<\/p>\n

It’s all about the light and the position of the moon and the ambient light. \u00a0Earlier this year I got a similar shot with the moon lower on the horizon. \u00a0You can see it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night as I drove home I thought that I would have a good shot at shooting the full moon. \u00a0However, as I drove home the mountains obscured the moon and after it was gone from sight I promptly forgot about it until it had risen higher in the sky than I wanted to photograph. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[132,134],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-and-environs","category-new-mexico-sky","tag-moon-set-over-albuquerque","tag-morning-setting-moon-over-albuquerque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}