NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

BLOOD MOON 27 JULY 2018

Everyone was ready, it was trending on Twitter in different languages but the supposed time 10:30pm had everyone waiting in anticipation, moving to disappointment. The moon had disappeared, despite the past month heatwave, on exactly the night we were poised with cameras to the skies. Were clouds hiding it, nature betraying us? But it was just late and almost an hour later the moon rose over the horizon and the blue lit sky turned darker, showing off its rusty tinge of colour. Low in the sky the moon eclipse of 2018 was about to begin. 

 Pale moon light infused with reddish tinge

 Zoomed in a little closer

 The light and eclipse starts slowly from the left

 As the white light takes over the red fades a bit

 Eclipse in full swing moving across

 Almost two thirds of the way 

 The full moon outline is seen and its almost finished

 And then the moon was fully white again. Watching the earth completely block the sun's light and witnessing as it were, all phases of of the moon light in that subtle hue over a short period is a joy. It was the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century and we won't see another for a while. I believe it was only America that didn't see it this time. Nature is amazing and we're so lucky that science knows about these things for us to share.