{"id":1634,"date":"2017-03-13T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T01:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1634-waxing-gibbous.html"},"modified":"2017-03-13T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T02:34:01","slug":"waxing-gibbous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1634-waxing-gibbous.html","title":{"rendered":"Waxing Gibbous"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2260 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1466-drizzle_integration_hist-Edit-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI really like the moon when it&#8217;s not a full circle. The shadows on the horizon are often quite stunning in highlighting the lunar mountains and creating a real three dimensional presence.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA few days before last night&#8217;s full moon I decided to revisit the technical challenge of a half reasonable moon shot with an inexpensive camera.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe idea is quite simple. Take fifty or more identical images of the moon in in quick succession, like a sports photographer machine gunning for the perfect moment. The difference is that here there is no perfect moment.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEvery image will be a tiny bit different as the atmosphere seethes and twists and curls craters and mountains like a bubbling cauldron or like a distant car shimmering indistinctly on a hot open road.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCombine all those images in just the right way and it is possible put those craters and mountain and lunar features back into their true locations.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDoes the process make this image truth or creation? Now there&#8217;s a question &#8230; for another time.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Waxing Gibbous&#8217;, 1\/60s f\/22 ISO100 600mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the moon when it&#8217;s not a full circle. The shadows on the horizon are often quite stunning in highlighting the lunar mountains and creating a real three dimensional presence. A few days before last night&#8217;s full moon I decided to revisit the technical challenge of a half reasonable moon shot with an &#8230; <a title=\"Waxing Gibbous\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1634-waxing-gibbous.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Waxing Gibbous\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}