Its fair to say that Sunrise and Sunset take the lion share of the vote for most photographed times of the day be it from a landscape photographers point of view or just a quick holiday snap.
Its also true that often from a judging perspective it is all to easy to become somewhat “numbed” to the share volume of images that get presented for competitions. At least this is what Judges have told me several times :-)
Which is why I enjoyed taking this image of “Moon set” over an alpine lake in Canterbury’s high country.
Despite the fact it was two hours before sunrise the the amount of light that was left as the Moon sank behind the far ridge was enough to illuminate the whole scene at a 30’s exposure and only ISO 1000.
I was just lucky that a particular cloud, building up over the ridge on my camera left was still catching the moonbeams (?) so provided a beautiful contrast to the heavily shaded ridge to my right.
And, the bonus is that I also got a sunrise in that morning as well…. ;-)
