I woke up very early this morning after only 4 hours of sleep. I collected the day’s prompts–those that had been posted this early–and decided to check my Facebook. Thankfully, someone had posted a notice that the moon was in almost total eclipse. Thus began a hour’s flurry of activity, first trying to photograph it with my hand-held iPhone, then searching the house for my long-neglected Canon with 80X Zoom, only to find all of the SD cards were full or nonfunctional for one reason or another. I erased one, then went in search of my tripod and spent another 15 valuable minutes trying to get the horizontal pivot to work.. No success. Finally, I took it out to the terrace again only to find that I didn’t need to pivot it to get a shot of the moon, but at that exact moment, the sky started to lighten from pitch black to a pale gray and the moon vanished entirely! Luckily, I earlier managed to capture one sliver of moon on my iPhone, and here it is–the blood moon almost totally drained.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
A beauty of a shot.
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Beautiful! 🙂
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Well done!
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Amazing! 🙂
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I have just come back inside after trying to capture our Blood Moon 🙂 🙂
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Did you get anything?
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Some that seem OK a lot of crap ones 😀
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Isn’t it fun to have these unifying factors in our lives, no matter how far distant?
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It is part of this amazing planet we all live on joined together by universal forces 🙂
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Great photo. What the iPhone lacks in versatility is made up by its being on hand when you need to take a shot, and nothing else is available.
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Absolutely true. I am rarely without a camera now but need to have other equipment at the ready at least when I am home.
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I love this shot! I was awake, and watched the moon, through clouds, diminish to about this stage. I wanted to stay awake to see the red color, but fell asleep just before that happened. It’s good to see a picture of the moon in full eclipse, just a few minutes after I fell asleep! Thank you!
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Well, we timed that well, didn’t we?
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That’s what happens when you have to take in 1/2 gallon of liquid each day!
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Ha, So it wasn’t just Kiismet?
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No — there comes a time when the body MUST sleep!
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Ah. I thought you were talking about getting up to pee!
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I was — but when it’s every hour, it’s hard to stay awake at 4 am!
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Nice!!
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An amazing shot! Definitely worth the lack of sleep!
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