A few days ago the moon was perfectly round and very
large. At night one could read poetry.
I wanted to capture the sky early in the morning
when the moon “descends” behind the mountain range line. I also wanted to do it
with a 1969 Nikon F and a same year Nikkor-Q
180mm telephoto lens wide open at f4 with a shutter speed of 1/15th
second.
The moonlight was so strong that I wanted to avoid all belief that this was a daytime photo using a red filter or so. Therefore, I made sure to capture the house light on the side of the mountain at the bottom of the frame.
…And I could not recall the words by David
Bowie in his 1972 song "Moonage Daydream" from the album, The
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
The lyrics are:
“keep your ‘lectric eye on me babe / put your
ray gun to my head / press your space face close to mine, love / freak out in a
moonage daydream, oh yeah.”
January 5, 2019
© Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2019
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