One of the statues at Castlemartyr Resort was this one of a woman swinging off the crescent Moon. It was quite striking and imaginative.

The Moon a few days ago early one morning.

The Moon is almost 90% of it’s closest approach to Earth right now, which is why it’s called a Supermoon but it’s not much bigger than it usually is. Thankfully the air is clear and the skies are mostly devoid of clouds so I got a nice photo of the Moon last night. 🙂

A blood red moon captured as it rose above the hills near Roche’s Point Lighthouse last night while on an outing with members of Blarney Photography Club.

The Moon, as it was last night. It looks much the same tonight too!

The Moon and Venus look down on The Grand Harbour of Valetta in Malta. October 2019.

There was a blood moon this morning starting at 4:42am but with 100% high clouds forecast I didn’t bother getting up. I did wake at 5:25am and looked out the window but the sky was a uniform darkness with no Moon or stars to be seen. Those clouds made for a vibrant red sunrise this…

The Moon over Lost Lake, Canada. A long exposure shot with a series of quick movements of the camera to draw a W for WordPress, of course. Thanks Dennis for the help drawing it in the right direction. 🙂

We called over to a friend’s house yesterday evening and even though I had heard there would be an eclipse I completely forgot about it. My Dad even texted me at 6.25pm that it’d be happening between 7pm and 8pm but I still forgot. Lucky he rang my wife and she reminded me of the…

The moon shines down on the Arizona desert, January 2008.

The blue sky over Kilkee Beach in County Clare. What a beautiful day that was!

I went searching and found a few pages describing how to shoot the sun during a solar eclipse. All warned against looking at the sun directly. So, I ignored all that advice and got out my 75-300mm lens and grabbed a couple of shots of the sun with a chunk bitten out of it by…