This was taken from my backyard the day after the lunar eclipse.
The moon was so bright I went outside to get a better look. It was just emerging from these heavy clouds.

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FFF+ Snap Happy is a group for FFF images that reflect positivity, happiness, joy and beauty only. Thanks Anne for the Blue theme for this week.

Once In a Blue Moon
I have been trying to use the challenges to teach myself new Photoshop skills as I have in mind images I would like to make in the future which would require more accomplished techniques than the rudimentary ones I have at the moment.

This image is made up of my own images, a night sky, the Supermoon, two lovebirds, a favourite old tree. I learnt how to make the love hearts from scratch. I know it isn’t that great (don’t look too closely) it is meant to be viewed as a whole. However, as soon as the Blue theme came up, I wanted to do something along the lines of Once in a Blue Moon. I didn’t have time to develop the story-line as much as I should have but, really, who cares. I am trying to learn not to care and just do.

For me it is about that great love that comes once in a Blue Moon. Lucky for many there is more than one Blue Moon in our lifetime.

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"I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, I guessed and I tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned, I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon"
The Waterboys

The famous Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo on the south Island of New Zealand. This is the best I could do for the classic nightscape image of this church. Wall to wall photographers, torches, mobile phones and headlights constantly casting light across the church, making the task just about impossible. And my exposure is too long to get pin point stars so there is too much movement causing small streaks in the stars.

Oh. I put that moon there.
Because I could
And I wanted to
So I could pretend
that just for a moment
I had some power
and some control over the Universe BVP

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Another view of the Corten steel bridge over the Craigieburn Bypass.

May give those who thought it looked like a boat some more context!

The bridge looked quite beautiful with the sun setting behind and lighting up parts of the rusting steel. I discovered this view point alittle late in the evening as the sun had already dipped below the horizon so definitely one to return to to try out a few more images.

Hopefully I will be back on track next week and will catch up with you all then. Hope all you Melbournians survive the cold artic blast that is supposed to arrive this afternoon.

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......you think you really stuffed something up but it turns out ok in the end!

You are probably sick of seeing blue and red moon Eclipse images but given this miraculously turned out better than I thought, I had to post it!
It was quite cloudy early on and so I wasn't well prepared. I stood in my drive way, slippers and pjs and pretended I knew what I was doing. I underexposed which was good while moon still relatively full but forgot to put it back when the light of the moon was vanishing. My remote shutter didn't work on this camera and it was hard to keep it steady without some drift. Once the moon was red, it was hard to get a sharp image as the exposure time was too long, even at a couple of seconds to eliminate movement in the moon. The moon moves faster than you think (or is it us spinning on planet earth!).
There is another one mid-year so maybe I will be better prepared :)

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