The Sun and The Moon
The last full moon of the summer, and the flower that follows the sun.
The Blue Supermoon in August 2023 was about to rise. I noticed at the park there was a community garden, so I ran over to check it out. As the sun set, I snapped some pictures of this sunflower before running back over to the pond to watch the moonrise. I made an HDR image of the sunflower and put it in front of that night's super bright supermoon. The last full moon of the summer, and the flower that follows the sun.
A blue supermoon is the rare 2nd full moon of the month, that happens to be in perigee, the closest approach to Earth.
Sunflowers are so interesting with their habits of following the sun throughout the day. By the end of the day they are facing west. Then overnight they turn back to the east to await the rising sun the next morning. Working all day to soak up as much sun as they possibly can.
Live by the Sun. Love by the Moon.
It means live logically, love emotionally.
Life is a balance. Art is a balance. Live with your brain, love with your heart.
Art takes the same principles. It takes both your brain and your heart to make great art.
The brain has the technical skills to create all the pieces. The heart has the time and love put into crafting those pieces into the final product for people to enjoy.
You should as well, consume art with both, your brain and your heart.
Appreciate the effort put in by the artist to create beautiful work, and notice the feelings the art brings up inside you. Read the artist’s stories about their work, and give the art time to speak to resinate with you.
This is the photo I took of the super moon that night. It was so large and bright! I had to wait for it to get over the trees before I could photograph it properly with my long lens. I photographed the reflection on the pond water, and put those images together to make a bookmark.
This was still pretty early in my night photography journey and I couldn’t get any foreground with the reflection because I was too close to the pond with my long lens. Lesson learned, I may need more than one lens to photograph a moonrise with a foreground.
The rippling reflection on the water looks like an undefined mystery under the moon. It could be a dock, it could just be a stream of bright white light. Once you know it’s the moon’s reflection, it allows you to picture yourself standing next to a pond watching the moonrise, and reflect on whatever is on your own mind.
The Sun and The Moon was printed in an issue of The Photograp[her] Magazine.
“The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.”
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