Moon – Nature Photo Challenge

The blog I follow – Denzil Nature – has a moon photo challenge up this week. I’m sharing some of my favorite moon shots. I don’t take photos of “just” the moon but of the moon in the landscape. I hope that qualifies! The above shot was taken in Acadia National Park on the coast of Maine. I spent 3 seasons there working for the National Park Service and had many opportunities to photograph the moon.

My second favorite moon photo was taken right across the road from my home in Vermont in the dead of winter – I snowshoed up to the top of the hill for a better view of the rising moon.

And the final entry for this challenge is the rising moon over the Southwest Arizona desert in the winter. We were “sheltering in place” here in our Airstream when everything shut down due to the pandemic during the winter of 2020. Not a bad place to be stuck!