Moon and clouds

The Lunar Eclipse yesterday was hidden behind thick layers of clouds. When I saw the moon this morning, just as it was sinking below the horizon, I had to grab some shots. At least I captured the moon during in the same cycle as the Eclipse K20D and FA*300mm f4.5. C&C are welcome!

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Loving it - it made me smile which is an achievement in itself

I thought I posted on this last night I musn't have finished it off with the add comment button

I like the shot with the clouds between the moon and the mountain being my favourite part.

Great shot!! It looks as though the moon is in actual fact a giant pearl nestling on a soft bed of cotton wool! My one criticism (I hope you will see it as constructive criticism though!) is that the water/mountains combination is a bit "empty". Either a B/W of this would look better, or the addition of perhaps a colourful fishing boat or something would give it some added "ooomph". Just my opinion though, for what it's worth.

Thank you for your comments!

I agree absolutely with your constructive criticism A fishing boat, for instance, would have given the whole photo considerably more substance. The only problem is that there were not any boats around when I took this shot...

I tried with quick conversions to B&W and monochromatic (grayscale), I preferred the latter:

Monochromatic version:

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I prefer the colour version and have mentally inserted a boat - not feeling it at all. I really, really like it as it is (sorry )

Clare

A really nice shot there and I prefer the colour version, I think it has plenty of atmosphere

Lovely shot, perhaps a tad noisy. I prefer the colour version too. I think it would also work without the water.