Full Moon Over Naval Station Mayport Florida.Start of Memorial Day Weekend. Moonrise/Sunset(behind). A view of the workers of freedom, those on duty only. Most ships are empty except duty sections while the shore side are on a four day weekend. Those on liberty on the way out the gate did not look back to see this. And we gave no mind to it while we served just duty and liberty Ha, Ha. We may have seen this in many forms at sea/ in a clearing of the brush/over the dunes while in the sandbox but not camera in hand to record just recorded in our minds while holding that wrench/scalpel/pen and paper writing a letter/while cleaning our rifles or sharpening our knives while we watched the day was done and our night just beginning. The ships are very a glow in orange due to a very bright cloudless orange/red sunset behind me. Scouted this location with TPE and Google Earth days before and watched the weather all day.This is not a true full moon, it is the day before. To get this kind of shot there are only two days just before the full moon a month and only 12 times a year (Unless you photoshop, which this is not.). The night of a full moon rise the sun will set an hour before. During the spring and fall the sun will rise almost exactly east and west with a full moon doing the same but summer the sun will rise to the north but the moon to the south and winter the sun to the south and moon to the north. If you had a pier/road for example perfect east and west twice a year the moon and sun will rise (set) head on and June (super moon) sun to north moon to the south and December sun to the south and moon to north and of course sun in the morning and moon at night. A goal for the golden hour photographer would be to capture that favorite pier/road/lake those three times a year sunrise/sunset- moonrise/moonset and place them side by side. Nik Software (HDR, Define) The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) APP (Sunrise/Sunset-Moonrise/Moonset times and azimuths) . Canon T2i 18mm.
