you don't see this often

In between Christmas and New Year, and while out walking our dog, Dexter, my daughter sent me a picture of the full moon rising over the mountain behind our house.

After seeing it I instantly grabbed my camera and longest lens and got busy.

The moon was shining so brightly** that evening, that it gave the optical illusion of actually being in front of the thin, wispy low cloud!  If you look carefully, you can just see the darker patches of cloud in front of the moon, but the final image is surreal in its uniqueness I feel.

Fujifilm X-H2, Fujinon 100-200 f4.5-5.6 at 400mm
1/800th of a second at f5.6, ISO 125
handheld

** before anyone writes into complain or calls the police, yes I know the moon doesn't shine, and it's the effect of its reflecting sunlight that gives it the appearance of doing so!

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Oh goody - the videos are back!!  This one is for the curtain-twitching nosy parkers among you who wonder what gear I keep in my camera bag.  Oh yes, it's the most cliched video a photographer can make: