Sunday night’s supermoon was the brightest and closest to Earth in 20 years. It was 14% bigger and about 30% brighter than usual. I did my usual research about possible locations in the week leading to the Full Moon. I found one promising location but Saturday was an extremely foggy day here in the San Francisco Bay. I had made up my mind that it was not worth going, until late Sunday afternoon, when a friend of mine sent me this text: “Moon shoot tonight?”. He lives in San Francisco so he had direct information that our friend Karl (see Karl the fog) was not coming over.
I drove quickly (but safely) to San Francisco to meet my friend and we went to my planned location. I knew I would not see when the Moon exactly rises over the horizon because of buildings in the way but I had calculated that shortly after it would appear above the San Francisco financial district, close to the TransAmerica tower.
The Moon played a hide and seek game with low clouds and it was interesting to work on compositions with a wide angle.
If you missed it, there is still another spectacular full moon in September. My images of July’s Full Moon are also available here.