Everything Looks Different at Night - Day 31

"Daylight" at Dusk - Moon Through Trees    

Time Exposure of the Moon Through Trees    

- turns the evening into "daylight."    

A 20 second time exposure with low ISO and medium f-stop delivers enough light to the camera sensor to make dusk appear to be daylight, and turns the moon into a softly glowing sun.      

Everything Looks Different at Night - Day 17

Waning Gibbous Moon    

Waning means "Fading" and Gibbous means "Bulging"    

- a gibbous moon is less than full but more than half illuminated.    

Gibbous moons occur on either side of the full moon, either waxing - growing, or waning - fading. In a gibbous phase, the moon reveals the contours of its craters on the shadow side.      

Everything Looks Different at Night - Day 11

Moon, Clouds and Architecture    

Geometric Shapes are Softened   

- by the soft abstractness of the clouds    

The rigidity of the triangles, the rhomboids and the circle of the moon are softened by the gradation of tones, the suggestion of of colors, and the sense of mystery in the clouds.    

Everything Looks Different at Night - Day 7

First Quarter Moon showing the Terminator   

Yes, We'd Like To Call It a Half Moon 

- but actually, that's a dessert pastry     

To be perfectly correct, our familiar "half-moon" can be either the First Quarter of the moon, or the Last Quarter of the moon. The First Quarter is the waxing phase of the moon between the totally shadowed New Moon and the totally illuminated Full Moon. Along the Terminator between "day" and "night," the Moon's cratered surface shows up well because of the contrast between sunlight and shadow on the crater walls.