Watersprite Lake Moonrise - a photo on Flickriver

Watersprite Lake Moonrise

            I had a bit of an epiphany while hiking up the mountain to reach this spot.

It's time to get in shape. I've let things slide for too long.

Our group was getting lapped by everybody on the trail. Granted, we were the only ones carrying multi-day packs and camera gear but still, it was humiliating.

5 hours of uphill slog with a 70L backpack almost broke me but I knew that this view would be waiting for me at the top.

With that kind of motivation it was a sure thing I'd get there eventually.

I lifted my massive gut over the bottom strap of my straining back pack and trudged on.

This moon rise was shot on the second night. I'd shot the moon rise the night before but somehow managed to knock the focus ring without realizing, so all my shots were out of focus and utter garbage.

On the second night though, the moon rose a little higher up the peak in a much more pleasing spot so I was kinda glad I'd messed up the first attempt.

For full disclosure, I totally added in those light rays in post. Very easy to do and the image was asking for it. because it was a full moon there were only a few stars visible so I pasted in a few extra ones to make it super tasty.

Thanks for looking
Gavin Hardcastle - Fototripper

Taken on: October 25, 2018

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