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Supermoon Nov 15, 2016

My #Supermoonfail

Updated November 15th. I didn’t like the photo I used so I replaced it with a shot I took this evening. Since today marked the closest the moon will come to earth for the next 18 years I thought I’d go out and grab me an image of that big, bad, moon. I didn’t get off to the best start. Moonrise where I live was due at 6:01 pm. I live in a suburb to the west of Houston so […]

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The moon reflected in the wet sand at Moro Bay

Daily Photo – Moro Moon

This is an image of the moon reflected in the sand at Moro Bay. I’d joined my friend James Brandon on a photo trip on the California coast last November. Unfortunately there were no clouds for pretty much the whole of the five days we were there. The upside of this was that we had to work harder to find images. There’s always something to photograph if you keep your mind open. The moon itself was and thin crescent, not […]

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Palais de l'Institut at Night

Daily Photo – The Palais d l’Institut at Night

The Palais d l’Institut in Paris is the home of the Institut de France that groups five académies with perhaps the most well known being the Académie française, established in 1635 and concerning itself with the French language.

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The pool at the Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida. this is the largest hotel swimming pool in the continental USA. it's 23,000 square-feet in area and holds 700,000 gallons of water.

Daily Photo – Biltmore Moonrise

With a multi-capture HDR I’d have been able to get a much crisper shot of the moon. As it is, I’m quite happy with the sharpness given this was hand held at a shutter speed of 0.4 seconds after two glasses of wine!

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