{"id":392,"date":"2008-07-22T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:00:49","slug":"moon-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/07\/moon-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul08\/MoonDark500527.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"527\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 527px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the early morning hours for the past week, the moon has been bright in the southern sky.  Karl and I usually head down the driveway for our early &#8220;perimeter patrol&#8221; about 5 a.m.  He wears his lighted collor (neon blue LED strip) and I carry a flashlight but I don&#8217;t like to turn it on unless I really need it.  A month past the equinox, it is still fairly dark at 5 a.m. but with the recent bright morning moonshine, the moonbeams through the trees have been plenty of light.<\/p>\n<p>It was hot yesterday, topping out at just below 90.  Forecast clouds kept the temp above 60 all night and this morning, the air was still and a bit heavy for Montana.  That extra bit of humidity, the stillness, the crickets &#8211; summer sounds that signal a warm day and hopefully some rain.  But it was the clouds around the bright, morning moon that inspired me to get the camera AND the tripod and see what I could capture.  More and more frequently, I have been shooting in manual mode and feeling every more comfortable with my ability to get the exposure I&#8217;m looking for &#8211; helped by a little camera that has some great &#8220;through the viewer&#8221; meters.  The first photo above was cropped and lightened a bit.  The photos below are cropped but otherwise straight out of the camera.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul08\/MoonA500503.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"503\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 503px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul08\/MoonB500569.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"569\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 569px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early morning hours for the past week, the moon has been bright in the southern sky. Karl and I usually head down the driveway for our early &#8220;perimeter patrol&#8221; about 5 a.m. He wears his lighted collor (neon blue LED strip) and I carry a flashlight but I don&#8217;t like to turn it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22062,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/22062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}