I decided to write this post in English, just to see what happens. Maybe more people will read it, maybe less. And maybe I’ll write more in English in the future. I don’t know, it’ll kind of be up to the statistics to decide. And now to the point.
Some time ago we had this rare chance to see both a total eclipse of the moon and a supermoon at the same time. My experience told me that probably the weather would not cooperate, but as I checked the forecasts in the days before, the chances of clear skies just got better and better. So I thought «why not just pretend it’s going to happen and prepare for it anyway». And so I did. I started to think about possible locations. I wanted a somewhat elevated location with a view facing west, and with a foreground. I wanted to make a landscape image, and not just a close-up of the moon itself. At first I thought about making one of these composite images with the whole time span of the eclipse, but I figured I didn’t have enough experience in this kind of photography. So it would be a straight landscape under the red moon.
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