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Bodie Open Until 10 pm Tonight, with Supermoon Rise Bodie is offering one of its Ghost Stories tour nights tonight, which means that they let other park visitors stay late too.  It's also a "supermoon" full moon today, and in a setting like Bodie with an eastern horizon about 3.5 degrees in elevation it'll rise over the apparent horizon during or right after peak sky color, about 20 minutes after sunset.  It gets fully dark around 9:04 pm, so you can also have nearly an hour of full moon night photography before the park closes.  As you can imagine, the park can be super crowded on a night like this, so don't expect to have it, or any particular subject, to yourself, but for the novelty of the overall experience or for practice shooting interesting subjects (and people) under full moon lighting, it's nice that the park makes such opportunities available. For a much longer, much less crowded experience, we have two more nights left in Bodie this year, October 1...

Lunar Eclipse April 4, 2015 Captured at 4:51 am as the moon set behind foothills near Monitor Pass in the Eastern Sierra. #lunareclipse   #moonphotography   #Canon

Lunar Eclipse Setting Over Convict Lake I captured the landscape around Convict Lake, well lit by the moonlight as the eclipse started, then I captured the moon at roughly 8 minute intervals thereafter and merged the sequential images into the original exposure. www.MyPhotoGuides.com #lunareclipse   #october2014   #astrophotography   #moonphotography

Plan your Moon, Mars, Saturn Photo This Weekend August 30 - 31 You'll have an extra subject for your twilight photos this weekend as the crescent moon teams up with Mars and Saturn to decorate the sky.  Here's how you can anticipate their position and movement to plan for some unique astrophotography images:  http://activesole.blogspot.com/2014/08/plan-moon-mars-saturn-conjunction-photo.html #nightphotography   #moonphotography   #astrophotography  Bodie Photo Workshops