Last night was the so-called blue moon, technically it is no different from every other full moon we experience other than getting a full moon twice in one month.  August 2012 happen to be that month, we had a full moon on the first of August and now another full moon on the last day of August. The term blue moon comes from the saying “Once in a blue moon” which is due to the rarity of this occurrence, the next time we’ll be experiencing a blue moon will be in 2015.

Regardless of it not being blue, it still was a beautiful night for a full moon.

Photographing the moon can be a challenge, often it just turns out as a big white glowing dot that simply looks like someone pointed a flashlight at you in pitch black darkness. After a bit of searching around online, I found a site that explains how to properly take photos of the moon and actually have it looking like the moon!

Using my Sigma 70-300mm lens on my Nikon D5100 I was able to get some pretty impressive shots. However when fully zoomed in the quality isn’t as good as I would have liked, I need to invest in a better zoom lenses. However when scaled down and a little adjusting in Lightroom the moon looks surprisingly good. To honor the blue moon celebration I gave it a slight blue hue but not too much as I prefer it to be more believable. I’ve made the usual wallpaper sizes available for download for your desktop, iPad, iPhone, and Facebook Cover. I hope you enjoy my version of the blue moon!

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Did you get to experience the blue moon? Get any good photographs? Please feel free to share in the comments below and I hope you enjoy using this blue moon on your screens.