Harvest Moon

On Saturday Morning I headed to West Beach here in New Bedford, as it was a cloudless morning and a full Moon so I wanted to try and catch some shots of it I go to the beach maybe an hour or so before the moon would have set and dropped below the horizon, Initially the moon was the normal whitish color we mostly see.

Now I will preface these shots saying there not as clear and crisp as I would have hoped for dure to a couple of reasons, one I think is I had switched a setting on my big lenses at some stage without realizing it, and that could well be the issue

and secondly, although I am pacing myself to try and ease the numbness in my fingers, Wednesday through Friday I am generally busy catching up with the Wednesday Walk posts and by Saturday the Numbness is fairly bad and I then take a few days not being online much, and these shots were taken on Saturday and most of these shots I was trying handheld with my left hand which has the numbness taking the weight of the lens so that may well be another factor.

But anyway enough waffling and onto the photos

^{Sony A7iv 600mm F6.3 1/160 Sec ISO 100
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This Full Moon which closest to the September equinox is called the Harvest Moon whihc is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox and September is usually the month associated with the harvest moon.

This full moon is also called the barley moon, the corn moon, the mid-autumn and mooncake.

The barley moon comes from the harvesting and threshing of barley. The harvest moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox.

Another European name is the fruit moon, as a number of fruits ripen at the end of the summer.

At moon rise, the moon is often reddened by clouds and dust in our atmosphere, and I think it was enhanced on Saturday morning as the Moon was setting as the sun was rising and it ended up being quite red in appearance

Not quiet yet in the next shot but you will see it get redder later in the post

^{Sony A7iv 200mm F8 0.8 Sec ISO 500
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Another shot, the detail not as crisp as I would have liked

^{Sony A7iv 600mm F6.3 1/20 Sec ISO 320
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I took a bunch of shots

^{Sony A7iv 243mm F8 1/1 Sec ISO 500
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I loved the glow it was giving on the water

^{Sony A7iv 202mm F8 4 Sec ISO 125
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now you can see the reds getting darker

^{Sony A7iv 600mm F8 1/30 Sec ISO 1000
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and even darker as it got closer to the horizon

^{Sony A7iv 600mm F6.3 1/10 Sec ISO 320
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and before I left i took one wider shot of the beach and the moon which was fading in intensity by this stage

^{Sony A7iv 27mm F8 2.5 Sec ISO 320
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And that’s all folks

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