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Moonrise at Daybreak. Sanibel island, Florida.
The full moon setting behind the The Rocky Mountains: The Rocky Mountains (or the Rockies) are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,830 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. Within the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie farther to the west. The Rocky Mountains were formed from 80 million to 55 million years ago during the Laramide orogeny, in which a number of plates began to slide underneath the North American plate. The angle of subduction was shallow, resulting in a broad belt of mountains running down western North America. Since then, erosion by water and glaciers have sculpted the Rockies into dramatic peaks and valleys. At the end of the last ice age, humans started to inhabit the mountain range. After Europeans, such as Sir Alexander MacKenzie and the Lewis and Clark expedition, started to explore the range, minerals and furs drove the initial economic exploitation of the mountains, although the range itself never became densely populated.
157/366- June 5th "YELLOWSTONE FULL MOONSET" #9260 ©2012
157/366- June 5th "YELLOWSTONE FULL MOONSET" ©2012
Full Moon over Biltmore House
The Full Moon of August 31, 2012 (which was a "Blue Moon" -- i.e. the second Full Moon of the month) rising over a harvested field, with windmills of the Wintering Hill wind farm. The pink Belt of Venus band is visible above the blue band above the horizon that is Earth's shadow. This is a 6-exposure HDR stack taken with the Canon 7D at ISO 100 and 16-35mm lens. Metered exposures.
Superstitious Moon - Lost Dutchman State Park - Apache Junction, Arizona
Moonrise Over Yosemite Valley-Yosemite NP, CA
Superstitious Moon - Lost Dutchman State Park - Apache Junction, Arizona
Superstitious Moon - Lost Dutchman State Park - Apache Junction, Arizona
Superstitious Moon - Lost Dutchman State Park - Apache Junction, Arizona
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