The Moon. I took this photo from my front step on the 28th of June. A Nikon D90 with an inexpensive Opteka 800 mirror reflex lens, mounted on a video tripod which made the tracking motions easier as the moon moved through the sky. I remember the first time I saw the Moon through a telescope. It changed my life. Being able to see the craters and mares (seas) in such detail gave me an out-of-body experience. It was ugly and fascinating, something truly alien yet so familiar that I could not remember a time of consciousness when I didn't know of, and watch for, the Moon. You wonder how our mythologies would have been affected if archaic people's could see the true color and texture of the Moon's surface.
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