As a lover of the night and all things lunar, I could hardly miss trying for some photos of last night’s lunar eclipse. Bill’s Nikon has a more powerful zoom lens than my Canon, but I know my Canon… I set both up on tripods plenty early to experiment with settings. Bill set the Nikon for me and he took the gorgeous full eclipse photo at the end of this post.
And while all of the event was spectacular and it was a beautiful night, it was the start of things, when the moon was low that was the most spectacular and exotic to me. The moon through the tree branches, the soft rainbow of color from the light refracted through the clouds - those were the fleeting moments of exquisite beauty for me.
I’ll be quiet now and let the photos speak.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1: 1
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness.
And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1: 14-17
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