OK, I wasn’t howling at the super moon… instead, I was holding my breath to keep still while I tried to shoot long exposures without a tripod in a stiff wind blowing off the lake. shiver shiver I wanted to shoot it when it was that haunting shade of red and low on the horizon, but at that point I was on the freeway driving the assistant home and could only glance at it while keeping on eye on traffic. It’s been 18 years since the moon was this close to earth, and by golly, do I have to wait another 18 years for it to look like that again?

I had a long day that included picking up the car from the garage, wedding venue scouting in the far reaches of the GTA (eg. Kleinburg Village), and training the assistant. When all that was over around 10pm, I made my way down to the lake and took some long exposures without a tripod — first resting the camera in the arm of a tree, then on a bench. I put the camera on self-timer to give myself enough time to pull my hand away, but not knowing exactly what was in the viewfinder… which you could probably tell by the shots toward the end!