Haven't been over here in quite a while. Here are some of my latest moon shots, some super, others less super...

Fotos from May's full moon. I rented the $12k 500mm L and 1.4 converter to pair with my Canon 5D3. The first night I had a bunch of friends but missed getting them in front of the moon, darn it.



The second night, I got my pals in front of the moon but missed the focus! It was wild and windy that night and that monster lens was not happy on my not-so-big tripod.





Fast forward a month... For June I rented the 400mm f/5.6L and 2x converter. Good lordy that is a nice lens! I think I may have found the one. To date I've been shooting with a Rokinon 500mm fixed f6.3 and have reached it's limitations - specifically, I cannot get foreground and moon in focus at the same time with the fixed and too low f-stop. Want everything in focus? Crank up the fstop. Want the moon big relative to your foreground? Get far far away (like a mile or more) and use a great big tele.

Supermoon #1 on Saturday:





Supermoon #2 on Sunday. This shot was Image of the Day on Monday at EarthSky.org!



Yes, I am a wee bit obsessed with the moon... All images were shot in the Phoenix AZ metro area.