Blood Moon

Last night there was a moon eclipse, which you probably already knew :) Here from Turkey it could clearly be seen from start to finish, it started to go back at 00:30 which I was too tired to shoot.

Total lunar eclipses are also sometimes called Blood Moons because of the reddish-orange glow the Moon takes on during the eclipse.
On the day of the eclipse, the Full Moon is also at its farthest from the Earth, so it looks a little smaller in the sky, making this a Blood Micro Moon eclipse.

I took these photos with a compact camera, first time I managed to take photos of the moon but I had done some research and I took my time. First of all you need a tripod the slightest movement will ruin the photo. If you do not have a wireless or cable shutter release (like me) use the self-timer function which I did on 2 seconds as your finger pushing the shutter also causes for movement.
Somewhere I had read to adjust the focus to eternity which made a huge difference. ISO on 400 as suggested at some places did not work out for me, I had it on automatic or 200. And aperture on f/4. I plaid around a lot on manuel mode, and am happy with the results for the camera I have :) Sharing this info as I saw a lot of very grainy or vague spots of moon photos these past few hours.

Photo shoot Expedition

For the past 2,5 months I have been going to a photography course 3 times a week. Up till now it was all technical learning, looking at photographs and discussing methods etc, but this past weekend we went away for the weekend and got to put our new knowledge to use.

We went Saturday morning at 7:30 am and arrived back at 20:00 Sunday evening. Our first stop was Patara where there were ruins for us to shoot. We also went to Xanthos, Letoon and to the beach for the sunset.

Patara's theater, dating from the second century B.C. is in very good condition.

Although it was raining cats and dogs on Friday and today (Monday) it was cloudy and cold, we had terrific weather during the weekend and I was in my t -shirt all day with above the 20 degrees Celsius weather, it was like a warm Spring weekend, so that was lucky!

Letoon is partly submerged and features the foundations of the temples of Leto (Zeus's lover) and her children, Apollo and Artemis.

Hard to imagine how majestic these places must have been, the tumbled down stones are amazing too though, and when looking closer you can see how much work went in each stone  before putting them in place.

Farm land in the background.

It was a nice change to just purely be there to take pictures and take the time for it.

And all the people of the group (20 of us) were fun so the entire experience was great fun.

Do you see the sunbathing sweet water turtles? So funny and cute!

These two I took at the end of the first day with my underwater camera.

Some people on Instagram asked me how I took them, here you can see how it looked from behind :D And at the end I got totally wet, but it was worth it.

These were from the first day, I will show more pictures this week of the second day.

Monday Moodboards

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The other day we took some outside pictures with our jewelry and bags, a few are already in the shop but we still have to get the hang of it, it needs a different approach then white background modelled pictures. Here some beautiful outside picture to show the mood :)

Have a great week everyone!
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