The scene: a moving boat out in The Minch as we sailed out of Loch Broom on a moderately easy swell as night fell. Added to that a camera using the equivalent of a 640 mm lens this was never going to be the perfect photo. But the huge orange disc sitting on top of a mountain in the Highlands of Scotland was just to good an opportunity to pass over. So there's no claim here to anything other than a photographic record of a memorable moment standing on the side of MV Isle of Lewis on an autumn evening.
'The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to' Carl Sandburg
Wow! Your friend the moon really does look close enough to chat to! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLovely. Looks like it's balancing on the edge there, or rolling along it.
ReplyDeleteMuch better than an archive shot. It's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYes Pauline I often chat to the moon - and then these men with a funny white coat come and take me away. But I return!
ReplyDeleteMonica it really did look like it was rolling along for a short while.
Adrian. Thanks. Quite a compliment coming from you with your exacting standards.
As spectacular as this photo is, I know that it probably can't compare to what it must have been like in person!!! WOW!
ReplyDeleteA real gift for you and anyone else that saw it!