¶Technically, only four of the “strings” are crossing the moon, but it takes six to contain it by my count, and I couldn’t resist that title.
¶This shot was the result of months of planning. I wanted to catch the supermoon on its rise while crossing the cables of the bridge, also while the sun was still setting to provide some natural light to the landscape and to give me enough shutter speed to freeze everything. I initially wanted to wait for a break in traffic on the bridge but quickly realized that wasn’t going to happen during the roughly twelve minutes it took for the moon to cross the cables.
¶This photograph gave me a lot of satisfaction when I made it, watching a months-long plan come together. And that plan came together after the weather had ruined many earlier attempts to get a supermoon shot in Florida. The weather will work out down there one of these years, but, for now, I’ve got this one from Toledo. It’s one of my all time favorites.