Picture of the Day - 12/22/2010

Lunar Eclipse with Tower of Babel - Here's one more take on Monday night's lunar eclipse at the Garden of the Gods Park - this time with the moon fully shadowed by the earth. If magnified, the moon would look rather orange. Focus was achieved by switching to Live View mode and adjusting the moon for best sharpness. Taken with a 16 - 35 mm wide-angle zoom set to 16 mm on a Canon Rebel T2i body. ISO was 800 with shutter at 30 seconds and f5.6. The rocks were lightened slightly and the sky cleaned up in Lightroom. The rocks were lit only by ambient light from a nearby building.