Driving home Heloise and I noticed the moon on the horizon looking impressive. Threw the Tamron 150-600 G1 on the Nikon D7200 and managed to capture this image with the camera set to ISO 100, 1/200th, F8. I even captured some incredibly sharp images using just a mono-pod all the way down to 1/60th of a second. Truly awesome how useful the Tamron VC is!
2018 Blue Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse! The moon was busy this morning. It had the duty of being the second full moon of January, a Super Moon, and a Blood Moon. Unfortunately their was a lot of haze when snapping the pictures this morning so the moon is a bit softer as the eclipse progressed.
What a beautiful evening. Perfect balmy temperatures and a gorgeous full moon and sunset! I hope you enjoy the images.
Taken with a Nikon D3300, D7200, and Nikon 35mm F1.8G DX, Nikon 55-300, Tamron 150-600 G1 at 600 f8 1/400th.
Full Flower Moon at rise on May 10th, 2017.Sunset on May 10th, 2017Flower Moon, and Sunset Yin Yang by Mark FinchMay 10th, 2017 Flower Moon at Full Rise.
The sky was very hazy so many jet contrails, but I managed to capture a couple decent shots of the December 13th, 2016 Super Moon. Enjoy the last Super Moon of 2016! Taken with Nikon D7200 and Tamron 150-600 G1 at 600mm, F8, 1/200th on a tripod at 8:11pm in Phoenix, Arizona.
Heloise and I took some interesting shots of the December Super Moon, but with all the haze it isn’t as sharp as it could be. Later after we got home from Anthem the moon looked like it had cut through the haze and blasted a hole to shine through. I have never seen anything like this, leave a comment if you know the technical name for it.
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Images of the Lunar Venus Conjunction from December 3rd, 2016. Heloise and I went out to Sunset Point Rest Area in Black Canyon City, Arizona to take some pictures of the conjunction. The pics below are all taken with the Nikon D7200 and Tamron 150-600mm G1 lens, except for the horizon picture which was taken with the Nikon 18-55mm VR2 lens at 21mm.
We had to cut it short because even with two jackets on Heloise was freezing. I think we grabbed all the good pictures anyway.
Lunar Waxing Crescent at 600mm taken with Nikon D7200 and Tamron 150-600mm G1Lunar Waxing Crescent at 500mm taken with Nikon D7200 and Tamron 150-600mm G1Venus Lunar Conjunction at 21mm taken with Nikon D7200 and 18-55mm VR2Venus Lunar Conjunction at 21mm taken with Nikon D7200 and 18-55mm VR2
Woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep so went out to see if there was anything to get some pictures of. The moon was a nice waning crescent so I snapped a few shots. Was a bit difficult to get exposed properly. The crescent was about 29% illumination which was causing the camera to want to over expose it in live view. I ended up taking a number of pictures with different settings.
What ended up working the best with the Tamron 150-600mm G1 lens was F8 at 1/200th and ISO 200. I didn’t see any extra detail at F11 and a bit more softness wide open.
29% Waning Crescent taken with Nikon D7200 using Tamron 150-600 G1 lens at F8, 1/200th, and ISO 200.
The Lord rose me out of bed before the sun rise took some flash pics of the doves. Caught Tom hanging out in the Mesquite Tree. He took off afraid I was going to flashy thing him too. The moon was still hanging in the sky so while waiting for the sunrise snapped a shot of it. The sunrise was glorious. Snapped the last shot of my 35mm Film with it and then took the camera inside and gave it a through cleaning.
Remember God Loves You!
September 19th, SunriseTom realizing he was not hidden in the tree.Picture of the moonSeptember 19th, SunriseThe doves having a chat about what that bright light was. (The flash)September 19th, Sunrise