The Moon

It's time for another Everyday Adventurer spectacular! I finally have my first good pictures of the Moon! Do you want to know how I did it? Believe me, with my knowledge of photography, it didn't start off easy. Before I tell you the easy solution, I also have a few pieces of moon trivia that you might find interesting.

There is an interesting connection with the face of the Moon and a few famous things that are dear to me. I'll give you a bit of history. Anyone who has been reading this blog for awhile might know that my favorite music is the band Queen. Well, Queen had an album back in 1977 called News Of The World. That album contained a couple of very famous songs; one was We Are The Champions, and the other was We Will Rock You. Even if you don't know the songs names, I'm sure you've heard them before. It's the cover of this album that I really want to talk about though.

On the cover of that Queen album is a picture of a giant robot. That robot has the same face as the moon! I won't post the album cover, but here is a link to it. Go ahead and take a look, the similarity is amazing! But that's not all! There's more to this story that even more of you might appreciate!

What I'm about to tell you next may not be entirely accurate, but this is what I read. Supposedly, one of the people responsible for the movie Star Wars saw this same album cover, or at least they saw the source of the artwork, and it became the inspiration for another famous robot!

That famous robot was the droid named C-3P0. I'll give you another link so you can compare all three now.
Queen Robot
C-3P0

Cool huh?

Now a few more things. How did I get the pictures of the Moon? It didn't start out easily. I tried a few things which ended up the same as every other picture of the Moon I was able to get. The picture above is a fine example of that.

After getting over a dozen pictures like this one last night, I ran into the house and decided to search the internet to figure out this problem. Since I don't want to take the credit for solving this one alone, I'm going to show you what it was I found. Here is a link that gives you directions for how to take a picture of the Moon.

Now I have one final very interesting thing for you!

While I was in a nice dark place taking my first batch of photos, I saw this huge halo around the moon! You can see it decently in this last picture, even though the picture is bad. The ring was so huge that I couldn't capture the whole thing; it just wouldn't fit in one shot. This was the best I had.

This is the first time I have ever noticed anything like this, so I decided to do another internet search to see just what this was. Guess what! I have another link for you! Here is a web page with an interesting explanation about this and a few other things.

The Moon. What a wonderful thing we have up in our night sky.

(I want to add one unrelated thing here. I have been very distracted lately, so I haven't always been keeping up well on this blog or any of your blogs. This is because I have been spending most of my home time reading, what is to me, a very important book. I like to take my time while reading this. When I'm finished, I will be back here much more often.)

Flying Geese

One of the first big quests that I've ever sent myself on was to get a picture of a bird in flight. I found myself spinning in crazed circles trying to catch a few birds flying past me. I quickly found out that birds enjoy teasing humans that try this sort of thing. Why else would they take turns flying complete circles around me?

But geese, geese are different than all of those other mean spirited little birds. After those cruel creatures broke my heart out of frustration, it was the geese that came and saved me. Geese were the first birds that made it easy for me to get a few pictures while they soared happily in the sky.

 Since then I have gotten very many pictures of my friends flying above me. I watched as the would take off, and I watched as they landed, sometimes seemingly crashing onto the surface of a pond or lake. These pictures I show you now are so close that my humble camera shows them clearly.

These two were part of a flock of maybe six. I only got these in the shot because they were so close. Even though they move slow enough for me to get these pictures, flying still takes a considerable amount of speed, so I couldn't get the entire flock most of the time. The top picture actually shows three of them, although there were more.

One of these days I'll decide to finally put the video part of my camera to good use and give you some good action of these crazy birds flying around. In these pictures they almost look as if they're just hanging there in the sky. Look very closely, there are no strings at all.

Canada geese like these are probably deservedly considered as pests around here by many people. But I think of them as my friends, for very many reasons. Mostly because I'm not the one who has to clean up after them. They can also be dangerous at times, but they have always only acted as my friends.