khephrens gateway
Shooting for the moon, in Astoria, Queens.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Like everyone else in North America, a humble narrator was up on the roof the other night getting shots of the supermoon/lunar eclipse.
My experience was somewhat less than salubrious, due to the fact that the restaurant on the first floor of the building I live in was still open and their exhaust system operating. This equipment created a constant vibration in the concrete surface of the roof, which is ruinous for long lens shots. Pictured above, a view of the moonlight drenched Shining City as seen from Astoria.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The actual eclipse itself, a so called “blood moon.”
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Looking east from my vantage, and through a flight path leading to LaGuardia airport.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The moon as the eclipse was still forming up, moving towards penumbra.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
A vertical shot looking eastward along Broadway.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
As long as I was up there, one last shot of the shining city. In an ideal world, the eclipse would have happened later in the night, when the moon was stationed above Manhattan.
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Mitch: Check my shots of the eclipse over the Steinway Mansion:
http://georgetheatheist.blogspot.com/2015/09/rare-lunar-eclipse-of-super-full-moon.html
georgetheatheist . . . Hye, diddle-diddle
September 29, 2015 at 1:18 pm
pretty sweet jurgis
Mitch Waxman
September 29, 2015 at 2:15 pm
Thank you. 13 days until Columbus Day. See what the Great Navigator did with the lunar eclipse of 1504:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse
georgetheatheist . . . Hye, diddle-diddle
September 29, 2015 at 3:25 pm
[…] America, I was up on the roof photographing the so called “super blood moon” in “khephrens gateway.” The battle of the Borrachos continued here in Astoria, in “another city.” […]
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