Posts Tagged “night”

During last night’s lunar eclipse, just a few minutes before totality, an airplane passed by.

Once the sky was clear of interruption, you could clearly see Saturn (left) and Regulus (above) near the moon.

The moon, basking in the reddish light of earth’s corona.

I’m liking the wide thing, vignetting and all.  Here’s the former grand canal (formerly a canal, still grand) in Trieste.

Thanks for the kind feedback on the night shots. I looked back in the archive because I was sure I had more, but found few. Here’s a minor mashup of Spain in 2007 and St. Petersburg in 2003. Bet you can guess which is which, but can you guess who had better ice cream?

I got the film back from the 36 hours of relaxation I managed to squeeze out of the tail end of an otherwise grim business trip to Cannes. I’m really enjoying the inky blackness of shooting Tri-X at night, hand-held, underexposed and not even pushed. Here’s the ferris wheel in Nice again, with the Mediterranean beyond it.

Note that the snack stand, in the Easternmost few miles of the French Riviera before the Italian frontier, is serving up crepes, popcorn, cotton candy, my beloved churros and a few unidentifiables. Despite the illustration near the upper left corner, no sign of “le hot dog.”

Earlier that day, I crossed the border between France and Italy without a passport at over 100kph, instantly bargaining down my linguistic crime from abject butchery of French to mere aggravated assault on Italian. Viva Europa.