Cooking With Richard

Tonight’s lunar eclipse.

I was using my camera with the rubbish 300mm lens, in our back garden:

Full moon, taken at around 9pm:

This is about when we can see the eclipse:

Half-eclipsed in the earth’s shadow:

More:

What doesn’t really come out well in photographs, and what you don’t know unless you read stories about 19th century travellers: The lunar eclipsed moon has an uncanny bloody quality about it. We know that this is caused by light filtering through the earth’s atmosphere, but still it is unsettling. I tried to capture this in this photograph, taken with a 1 minute exposure during the eclipse:

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