2022
“The Eagle has landed” - Neil Amstrong, July 20, 1969, 20:17:40” UTC
This post is dedicated to the historic moment when, 50 years ago, the first men landed on the moon
Preface
I was nine year old, my eyes wide open watching the TV, in the evening of an hot summer. Men are on the moon!! Men are on the Moon!!
The television was resting on the window sill, facing the courtyard. All the neighbors were there (we were the only family who owned a television) in the dark, watching the LEM that leaned in the Sea of Tranquility
50 years later, to celebrate an event that changed our way to watch the World, I want to invite you to write about the Moon, adding the moon in your stories
Introduction
Raise your hand, if you see yourself on this experience.
The “zoom experience” starts when you arrive home with the new camera, or with a powerful zoom or a new telephoto lens.
The moon is there, a perfect subject to test your new toy. Waiting for the full moon, waiting for the perfect full screen shot that you have already seen everywhere on Internet.
First shot. You check it and it is already good, the second one is better, after the third one you start to play with the manual setting, for getting if possible more definition. The results are greats, so you start something different: half moon, ¼ of moon, a small slice of moon. You can see the details of the craters on the border line between the light and the shadow.
Two months later you realize that every photo is very similar to the previous one, all the possibility seems to be already explored, and you start to forget the moon.
Again, raise your hand, if you see yourself on this story 🙂
The moon still there, but it is not longer appealing. Everything seems to have already been explored.
You can give up, now, or …..
… or you can start to think that “this is the perfect time for a change”, and you can .. “bring the moon on your stories”
Dusk is the perfect moment, for taking a photo with the moon (not “of the moon”)
At dusk, the moon is not so high on the sky, so you can easily combine her (for me the moon is a female name) with other elements of the photo.
There is enough light for your subject to be clear visible, so for your shot to include the moon and the elements that are around you.
Countdown is started. My challenge for you is: Share here the your photos “with the moon”, and write the story of your photo
End date is: July 20,at 20:17:40 UTC - to celebrate together the first men on the moon
My story:
It took to days for me to take the next photo. I had just left the hypermarket, and was about to get into the car when, looking up, I saw the moon, and I saw the street lamps. The association between the two things was immediate, with the photo already printed in my mind, but ….
The moon was not completely full, and I wasn’t able to find a good position for my shot: so many trees, and other obstacles were obstructing my ideal line, so I had to give up.
On the next day I reached the same place. The position of the moon was slightly different, so finally, I had a line, even if I had to took my shot from the middle of a roundabout, flattered on the grass, to find the right alignment.
I posted my shot on Instagram. I am inviting @JanVanHaver to repeat his comment here 🙂
Can’t wait to see your photos 🙂
If you don’t have any idea of what I am talking about on the preface, here a few link for you:
Kennedy Space Center - Cape Canaveral - FL
Definition of Lunar Excursion Module
Thank you @CaterinaOS
I haven't seen so many people that use the moon on the photos..
1969 was a very exciting year, @JanVanHaver
I remember all the details of the Apollo 11 mission, and Apollo 13 too. I have visited Cape Canaveral years later, on 1996, it was a great emotion for me to see the LEM, and the Saturn V, the 110 metres high vector that was the missile used to transport the module out of the atmosphere.
Back to the photo, yes I reported it (LOL) and this was the solution
I want to add a bit of story about this photo. Traveling on the earthquake area, on a cold day of winter, while moving from Marche to Umbria region, we saw the moon just in front of us, on a deep blue sky.
I stopped the car on the highway, to find the best position for taking the photo, waiting for cars and trucks to pass.
I have a special love for this picture, so I wanted to use it on this post, where the moon is the protagonist.
In the middle of the noise of the traffic, the message that I was receiving was a feeling of silence. What is your feeling?
