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Reach for the Moon, cafuego

Reach for the Moon

Reach for the Moon, cafuego

Reach for the Moon

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On our way back from a trip into the desert I noticed the Moon was rising behind the Burj Khalifa, so I planned to return the next day and try to snap it rising the building. Turns out the spot I picked made it pass directly over the top.

I took so long waiting for the Moon to be in the right spot that the airco ran down the car battery and we got to enjoy another 45 minutes in the baking night time heat until road side assist came to swap in a new one.

This is a Photoshop HDR of four exposures. I didn't use bracketing, so the Moon moved noticeably in the time between exposures, which means I had to manually clean up the image. That;'s why it looks more fake than usual. But I promise, it looked fantastic to the naked eye :-)

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Reach for the Moon, cafuego