Venus and the Moon Tonight

[William Seger]

Still a lot of smoke around Pikes Peak from the California fires.

[elleng]

1. WONDERFUL!

[applegrove]

2. Cool!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Omigod, what an incredible capture this is! You even got earthshine. Wow.

Absolutely stunning.

I really wanted to capture this too, but the clouds blew in at the last moment and all was lost.

Thank you for posting this treasure!

[William Seger]

7. Thanks. It's an HDR

The longest of the three exposures captured the earthshine.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. What a great use of HDR!

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Lovely. Thank you. ❤

[RestoreAmerica2020]

5. Love it..great vista! Foreground, background, sky y la luna. Que bella photo!

Paz

[Beartracks]

6. That is beautifully composed!

[William Seger]

13. Thanks. I usually crop to improve the compostion

... but I liked this one right out of the camera.

[cate94]

9. Beautiful! n/t

[Blue Dawn]

10. How absolutely mesmerizing.

I think I could just sit and gaze at this for hours. When I first saw it, I thought it was a watercolor painting. The colors are so beautiful.

I am blown away by the composition and everything else about your photo. I really appreciate your sharing it. Thank you.

[MichaelSoE]

11. Excellent ... I viewed the larger image and the lack of noise amazed me.

[William Seger]

12. I cheated -- I used the noise filter in PSP

I shot at 1600 ISO, so there is a lot of noise in the original. That filter makes for a softer image, but that seemed to be okay for this shot.

[MichaelSoE]

14. that's not cheating, it's just good post work