Full Snow Moon meets the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse (extended series), or 49 minutes of "whoa" in 14 frames (working title).
Since successfully lining up the Sun with the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse last summer, I've wanted also to do a shot with the Full Moon, and after a failed Friday night Moon+rocket shot, a Saturday trip to Ponce seemed plausible.
The January Full Moon worked better than this one because I could have stood on the other side of the inlet, allowing ~2,500 additional feet between me and the lighthouse. But, the January weather was questionable, and the full moonset was on a weekday; relevant because this location is ~80 minutes away, and I'd need to leave the house at 4:30 am to be in place in time, a considerable disruption to work, school and, of course, sleep.
For this shot, everything just worked. The Moon was properly full, 100% illuminated, at 7:30 am Saturday and scheduled to set at 7:08 am (so this Moon is fuller than moon shots from Saturday night, ~12 hours post-full). With the help of Photopills, I figured I could align the Moon at ~6:54 am, one minute after sunrise, from the jetty at Lighthouse Point Park. And because the jetty ran (essentially) east/west, I could chase the Moon as it set by moving west, keeping it centered on the lighthouse for a few minutes as it approached the horizon.
The weather Saturday morning was nearly perfect. Just 12 hours earlier, the moonrise shot I had hoped for was entirely obscured by clouds. And when I woke at 4 am Saturday, the forecast showed fog for the Ponce Inlet. As you can see, fog wasn't a problem, and I'm glad I ignored the forecast.
I've previously posted my favorite shot from that morning (the close-up; it's also included here), so technically, these are the outtakes. I've also included a couple of cell phone snaps for some "behind-the-scenes" scenes. They're shown here chronologically, beginning at 6:15 am as the eastern horizon brightened. The last picture was taken at 7:04 am, and by that point, everything was bathed in orangish sunlight. The conditions, both the light and color, changed quickly throughout the sequence, and the shots don't do the scene justice.
Also, bonus (in a couple of shots): birbs.
All the lighthouse close-ups were shot with a Canon R5 + EF500f/4L and 1.4x III teleconverter. It was a lot of lens to haul out there, but I was pleased to be able to shoot at f5.6, especially when the Sun was still low. The other shots are iPhone snaps.
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