Tonight the full Strawberry minimoon rose over Chandler Hovey Park and I was ready to capture the year’s smallest moon from across the harbor at Fort Sewall. I had set up with my camera on a tripod and brought along the drone wondering how a different perspective might work in shooting the moon. When the moon rose, I learned quickly that the drone’s camera was simply too small (in regards to focal length) to do this ‘minimoon’ justice and concentrated on getting this shot with the real camera.
I decided to compose the final image to include the working boat ‘Tanya & Jodi’ filling the otherwise empty section of harbor and situated the moon between Marblehead Rock and Marblehead Light. When everything fell into place, I clicked the shutter and instantly decided to call this one ‘by the Light of the moon’.