Flower Moon

When I awoke at 4, there was a bright, full moon peering at me through the bedroom window. It was almost exactly the time of the full moon. Many call this May full moon the Flower Moon.

I rolled over but not for long. It was an opportunity after all.

Alexa told me that it was 9°C, which is 48° in that other system, so I put on a sweater, and then I donned my winter coat and hat. On the plus side, it was bug-free.

I didn't really know where to head but eventually found myself on High Street with the moon more or less centered over the street.

I decided to take two photos to composite later in post. One photo would be for the street, but exposing for the street would blow out the moon. Then I zoomed in focused on the moon and exposed so it wasn't blown out. Of course, that made the rest of the photo almost black.

After combining them in post, this is the result.

As with all of my photos, it is imperfect. For example: the street lights are out of focus. I was standing in the middle of the street in the dark after all, so it is what it is. Also, I probably got the moon bigger than it was but not much I don't think, and I don't care anyway..

I am happy that I made the effort, but I don't think I would do the zoom approach again. I would simply take two exposures at the same zoom, and then blend them if one exposure wouldn't suffice.