I wish you could see the moon as it appears overhead here at this moment. I’ve never seen anything like it. Pictures (mine, anyway) can’t begin to capture its vivid beauty, and I laid a long while on the driveway gazing up. And then, being the suburban dad I am, I rose & towed in the trash cans. I’m feeling very blessed.
I wish you great peace, happiness, and success in “oh-Ten” (as I’m sure to stumble and call it more than once). Thanks for reading.
The moon was incredible here in New Zealand this evening also. It was huge as it came up on the horizon.
You saw the “Blue Moon” John. It came on News Years and was magnificent.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/blue-moon-years-eve/story?id=9448523
I photographed this phenomenon here in Germany a few days back as well. It is called the 22° halo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22°_halo
[Very cool; thanks, Martin. –J.]
Just press “Enhance,” John!
Happy New Year, and thanks for all your blogging efforts so far — so don’t stop now!
I missed it last night… oh, well. Maybe there’ll be a chunk of it left tonight.
Thanks for your posts, John. I’m a semi-regular follower – lurking mostly – here for the CS info and linky inspiration. I found you through Kelly Castro.
Russ
John, I must admit that I was out last night and attempting to capture the moon in HDR. I’m such a photo geek.
It was really quite nice.
Russell Brown
[Sounds cool, Russell. I was wishing I had a tripod. I was further hamstrung by my pitiable fear of using full manual settings: even underexposing by two stops, the moon was entirely blown out, and I never got further. –J.]
It was amazing on my side of the hill, too. And aren’t we lucky that we live where we can enjoy the moon outdoors on 12/31 without freezing?
[Indeed, though it’s all relative, and in CA one reserves the right to shiver at 50F! –J.]
NASA posted an incredible photo of the New Years moon for their Jan 2 Astronomy Picture of the Day. It includes a partial eclipse.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
thanks you
Hi, have a happy new year :o)
I am a Photoshop and Flash instructor and there are some aspects of Photoshop that I have noticed (something that shouldn’t work the way it works), above all in the Italian version of the software (and above all on Apple computers).
I have tried to solve the problem with Adobe Italy, but they ignored me (starting from the Customer Care and the Technical Support till the Adobe System Italy administrator).
Is it possible to have a contact with you or somebody who deals with Adobe in Italy in order to explain the facts?
I thank you in advance
ZioRiP
I too tried to get that beautiful full moon on new years. I live in San Jose as well, and it was so amazing to see, i dragged the whole family outside. I did various exposures, and to get it to hold ‘detail’ in the moon, the rest of the sky was completely black, such a shame, its even harder than trying to photograph the sun. Would’ve made a nice HDRI but I didn’t have the patience with a house full of guests.
Happy New Year to you and yours, John 🙂
The moon can be tough – there are some simple guides but usually it’s more difficult!
http://www.calphoto.com/moon.htm
Have a happy, healthy and prosperous year ahead, mate.
John, you are one of the few people I faithfully read and follow for the simple reason you are so interesting and your links are very entertaining.
Thank you for the time and effort you put into your presentation. So that also means I need to thank Adobe for keeping you going. You guys are the best.
Thanks,
Tim
Happy new year!
All the best best for you in 2010.
Kind regards,
Diederik
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Moon looked great in Sweden too.
So did Mars which was quite close to it. 🙂
Happy new everyone!
Happy New Year, John!