Texas Dip Strawberry Moon - a photo on Flickriver

            June's Strawberry Moon rises over an area near Borrego Springs known as the "Texas Dip".

The Texas dip is a 1.1 mile wide dip in where the highway crosses through San Felipe Wash near Borrego Springs. I had seen a composite photo of the moon with this area before and thought I should give it a try, I get bored doing the same areas around San Diego all the time for moon photography. 

I had a sinking feeling when I saw the moon start to rise over the horizon and then immediately get swallowed up by the clouds, but as time went on I was rewarded seeing the moon start to appear from the top of the clouds right where I wanted it over the road.  

In the 1930s the Maine Farmer's Almanac began publishing "Indian" names for full Moons and these names are now widely known and used. According to this Almanac, as the full Moon in June this is the Strawberry Moon, a name that comes from the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries in the north-eastern United States.

This is one photo, but double exposed, I took one photo into Lightroom and created a copy, exposing one to show more detail in the moon and one for the foreground and then brought both into photoshop to blend them together for one photo. You get a brief amount of time for the perfect moon shot, to early and the moon looks washed out without any detail, to late and the moon will look like a bright white ball of light without any detail if you are trying to expose  for the foreground as well, so I was pretty happy I was able to get this photo to work. 

I usually like my moon's to really fill the frame much more in my photos and if I had moved much closer to the far side of the dip I could have gotten the moon closer to the horizon and therefore shot it at a much increased size in relation to the road, but I would have lost the feel of going down and then back up out of the "Texas Dip".

Taken on: June 21, 2024

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Camera: Sony ILCE-7RM5, f/5.6, 1/8 sec, 298mm, ISO 250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCE-7RM5
Lens:	FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.125 sec (1/8)
Focal Length:	298mm
ISO:	250
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Cloudy
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.3.1 (Windows)
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