This is a bit naff because it’s overexposed, but by the time I accounted for that the clouds had moved:
I didn’t penguin these because against the black background it would probably be rather obnoxious. The moon’s probably public domain by now anyway.
Edit: This was from the 29th, by the way, which the astrologers among you could probably have figured out without looking at the EXIF data.
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Both are excellent. I’m guessing west coast US?
Negative. Insofar as I’m able to tell this was not caused by wildfire smoke, either. Our neck of the woods experienced that a couple of weeks ago (which is indeed where this red sun picture came from) but it seems to have blown away in the interim. This was with the moon very low in the sky, just a hand’s span or so over the river from my vantage point.
oddly enough i actually quite like the overexposed one. gives it a more creepy feel, with everything else still being pitch black.
Surprisingly, if your display has enough contrast and the blacks are not crushed down that low the clouds are actually visible against the night sky in both photos, even if only just barely. It’s at times like this that I remember that most of my readership (i.e. sane and rational individuals) probably didn’t drop over $1000 on their primary monitor; This is visible on my main rig’s screen but not on my camera’s screen or even through its EVF.
It’s amazing how much worse my photos sometimes look on my monitor at work, which is also what was once an expensive high accuracy, high bit-per-pixel professional display… from 15 years ago.
One wonders what productive individuals spend their money on instead.
