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How I captured both the crescent moon and “Earthshine” in one photograph

Apr 28, 2020 by Christopher Sherman 1 Comment
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This is something I’ve been wanting to attempt for a while but the skies have not be clear enough to do so. Iowa skies in fact have been almost constantly cloudy of late – or a least when one wants to shoot the moon.

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Putting a man on the moon: celebrating Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary

Jul 18, 2019 by Christopher Sherman 1 Comment
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I’ve been fascinated with the idea of incorporating the moon into photos whenever possible. And so, with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing on July 20th, I was excited by the possibility to shoot something special for the occasion: Putting a man on the moon. The man here is Ty Johnson, a paramotor pilot, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As NASA will tell you, getting a man to the moon is harder than it looks. This is how we did it.

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