A Lua

I was thinking it would be fun to get some full moon shots, last night when I was watching it rise through the window. Not much later, I saw a shot on Gothamist that was taken at 5:45 in the morning, that looked pretty cool. It made me want to copycat, and shoot one in the morning, also. So I woke up at 5:30 (since it is laundry day, anyway), grabbed the tripod and gear bag, and headed up on the roof. No sooner did I get up there and set up, than I realized I had left the 200mm lens down stairs. Dreading the trip back down the ladder, I snapped a couple at 40mm. I soon realized that they were all going to turn out like crap, w/o the 200mm. So I hurried down the ladder, grabbed the lens and climbed back up, just in time to get it mounted and get the shots below.

As I was reviewing these shots in lightroom, I could actually see the moon setting, from frame to frame. It was kind of cool.

As the moon was starting to disappear below the skyline, I turned around and saw this. Yes, a[nother] sunrise photo. Hahahahaha.

Totally unrelated, but worth mentioning: Reagan wrote up an abbreviated first hand account of the events leading up to, and the delivery of Piper, that was published on Design Mom, yesterday (albeit they misspelled her name). It was pretty cool for me to read. It made me revisit some of the emotions that I was having, at the time. Piper and Reagan are pretty amazing, especially when put in perspective.