[Janice D. Soderling]

If there is anything you only do once in a blue moon, tonight's the night.

http://earthsky.org/tonight/blue-moo...976d-393776977

[Cally Conan-Davies]

I'm already in the moon mood, Janice! I've been warming up my shutter finger the past two nights, because the moon has been rising right above the trees in front of the house, and painting spectacular silver freeways on the surface of the sea.

These, on my blog, from two nights ago. If you take a look, they look best if you click on the images, and also make the page full screen.

The August blue moon is hugely special to me. One of the poems Les Murray recently accepted for Quadrant is called 'August Moon'. I wrote it in a splash of time after last August's true blue moon—when two full moons occur in one month—when I spent hours gazing so closely at its full face that it suddenly began to speak.

Moons in every quarter are my madness!!! I'll be out there tonight, camera in hand, clear skies beholden, moon-communing.


Cally

[Janice D. Soderling]

This tongiht is also a "true blue moon". I'll be waiting longingly for those photos; you are doing marvelous camera work. I'm glad you have a hobby now.

PS I assume you have been getting the meteor showers as well.

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Quite right - I should have said 'conventional understanding' of a blue moon.

I have only one thing to say about meteor showers: CLOUDS. The Universe is SO UNFAIR.

Do you know, J, that the equivalent August full moon Down Under is called a Waking Moon? Because it's spring down there. Waking Moon is opposite to Harvest Moon. Don't you love it? I dread to tell you, but I wrote a poem about that one, too, and it'll be in Kin soon. What's a woman supposed to do, when the world keeps hurling metaphors at her???!!!!!

[Mario Pita]

Originally Posted by Cally Conan-Davies

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I have only one thing to say about meteor showers: CLOUDS. The Universe is SO UNFAIR.
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What's a woman supposed to do, when the world keeps hurling metaphors at her???!!!!!

Well it may be hard to see the meteor showers, but at least you are getting the metaphor showers! Sometimes those are hard to see too. When a meteor enters the atmosphere, it writes on the sky, becoming a meteorite. For writing, meteor showers use atmosphere fingers, but metaphor showers need ours!

Mario

[Cally Conan-Davies]

[Spindleshanks]

Marvellous!

Cally, what equipment do you use? Settings?

I tend to aim my lens at the ground rather than the sky. The unique WA bush sings my song.




Peter

[Janice D. Soderling]

What amazing photos, both of them! Continue, both of you, to look both heavenward and earthward.

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Mario! Great connection between 'meteor' and 'metaphor'!

Peter,

How I wish I could get across the Nullarbor again soon. I have yet to witness the western deserts in flower—one of my life-dreams. Sometime in the coming year...

The settings for the moon are 1/160sec at f/8 ISO 100. I never tire of looking at it in this detail. My other life-dream is to own an SLR camera. I have only a regular Canon Powershot digital camera, with little control over settings. The camera does everything automatically, although I have learnt how to adjust a lot of things in manual mode. Still, it's frustrating, when I change one setting and it automatically adjusts another setting, preventing me from getting the effect I would like.

Imagine, if I had an SLR, I would be able to change LENSES!! A wide angle lens, a telephoto lens—these are my dreams!

Your flower is exquisite! I am as keen about photographing flowers as I am about planets and moons and stars. I also absolutely love photographing moving water—waves, waterfalls—and birds—all animals, really.

Lovely to see your photos, Peter. Mario takes incredible photos, too. I follow his blog.

Janice—it was a perfect night for the moon!

[Orwn Acra]

The moon has a belly button.