Sunday, 1 January 2012

CITY DAILY PHOTO - THEME DAY: 2011 MY PHOTO OF THE YEAR

The lunar eclipse of 16 Jun 2011 occurred during our winter, but we were fortunate in Melbourne to be able to watch it in cloudless skies. I remember getting up at 4:00 a.m. and in the bitter cold setting up my camera in order to capture the event. I had some unsuccessful shots, but here is the moon at totality. I was rather pleased with this one and even managed to rush off to the airport straight afterwards in order to catch my interstate flight for a work trip!

This oost is for the City Daily Photo Theme Day meme.

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15 comments:

  1. Valladolid Daily Photo1 January 2012 at 15:46

    Fantastic shot, it´s a great choice to this theme day. Happy New Year!

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  2. Red Nomad OZ1 January 2012 at 16:34

    HHHMMMmmm... I'm thinking the work trip would have been a bit of a comedown after the eclipse!! Happy New Year!

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  3. Mark1 January 2012 at 16:41

    Classic shot. The other night we watched Venus set it was an incredible magnitude, maybe 3 kings are following it somewhere?

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  4. Betty Manousos1 January 2012 at 16:55

    such an exquisite shot!

    happy new year!

    loving your photography/blog!

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  5. PerthDailyPhoto1 January 2012 at 18:29

    Well done Nick, great shot. I wish I had one like this in my 'moon shot' collection, it's not an easy one!!

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  6. Liz1 January 2012 at 18:31

    WOW!! Stunning!
    I was in Melbourne for the December 2011 Lunar eclipse. I took my tripod down hoping to capture some amazing photos as I had great success capturing the moon a few months earlier. I was so sad when we had storms... back home in Brisbane they had a few great oportunities to capture it (I was devastated).

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  7. Judy Williams1 January 2012 at 20:05

    You just can't beat a full amber moon. Fantastic.

    Happy New Year from Austin, Tx

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  8. Rae Walter1 January 2012 at 20:27

    Stunning Nick. No wonder you have this as your best shot.

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  9. MurciaDailyPhoto2 January 2012 at 00:07

    Love picture! Great choice for the theme day. Happy New Year!

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  10. Dianne2 January 2012 at 01:44

    A stunning photo Nick - with great clarity.

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  11. Leif Hagen2 January 2012 at 02:16

    Is the MOON really made out of cheese?!
    Excellent photo for today's theme day!

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  12. Nathalie2 January 2012 at 05:13

    The shot itself and the whole story around it both are good reasons to make the photo memorable. Congratulations and happy new year !

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  13. Dyanna2 January 2012 at 11:27

    Really lovely!
    Dyanna
    www.berkeleytoday.wordpress.com

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  14. Anonymous3 January 2012 at 00:13

    Definitely a brilliant shot! Just gorgeous.

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  15. Unknown21 January 2012 at 16:50

    this shot is of cracking clarity...brilliant n indeed a top photo!

    also, i'd really appreciate if you could contribute for Saturday Sareenity.

    have a great weekend,
    cheers!

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