Blame it on the Moon

Well, I tried to take a picture of the moon last night for my friend, Chase, who was having a tough day yesterday and wanted to blame it on a full moon.

The moon last night was a banana shaped sliver with a bright planet (I'm assuming Mars or Venus) just above and to the left.

I was driving home and kept seeing it and decided to dig my camera out of my purse and take a picture for Chase.

My camera has an option for "Scene", so I put it on that and slowed WAY down and took a shot. No good. It hesitates a LONG time to actually take the shot, then it processes it. The picture came out like you see here. I drove along a little further and came to a place where I could see it well, slowed WAY down and tried again.

Well, crap. Here I am on a dark road in the middle of nowhere Hinds County and am trying to make a dang picture of the freakin moon for someone I've only met once. But, doggonnit, he's special to me and I REALLY wanted to do this.

So, I kept rolling along, looking for an opportunity with no one on the road and a good view of the moon and finally came to a complete stop, rolled my window down and took a shot. The camera hesitated, finally clicked, then processed and I got this:

It was at this point I realized that, obviously, I cannot hold the camera still enough during the long hesitation and processing time with low light conditions. But what a cool shot! It's like some kind of giant ethereal birds or something.

Even though I was not successful in taking the picture that I had in mind, I still managed to get a shot I wanted to share.

So, Chase, little bro, this is for you. I wanted you to know you were on my mind last night, just as so many of my other MRBA friends were.

I love you all.