I was too late...

 ... to get the "red moon" last night and tonight, but I still captured enough of a full(ish) moon this evening, that I am able to post a bunch online. 

Everyone is talking about how bright red then orange this natural satellite was, and sadly, I missed it. I wasn't about to go out between 2 and 3 this morning to get pictures. I didn't realize there was an exact time to get the absolute perfect shot, and adding the fact I took a sleeping pill (Natrol Soothing Night), I definitely wasn't about to wake up. 

Yes, I'm now trying other natural sleep medicines to help me sleep the night away. I think I need to take this nightly, instead of every few nights, because it doesn't seem to be helping for the random times I need it. I mean, I'm sleeping at least 7 hours with it, but it feels far less than that. 

I find myself oddly waking up at times and only for a minute or two. Maybe that's also because I'm wearing my watch, and I'm seeing if I've been asleep for an hour or three hours. Or, it's because it's been cool enough out, and my window has been open. All the local street noises and lights are waking me up (a neighbor has a big vroom vroom pickup truck that needs to be fixed and he refuses to get it looked at. He leaves the house at all hours of the day and night. Last week, he left at 10:30pm, came back, and left again at 2:30am. Due to his muffler or tail pipe or whatever is wrong, the noise woke me up. Rattled my room, and he's not even in front of my window. He's about 70 feet away [?]. Across the street. Needless to say, I was up for 90 minutes after that). 

Overall, I can't explain it. I'm just waking up at various times. It's weird and maddening at the same time.

Anyway, back to the non moon landing.

I was out earlier with my mother and one of her friends, and where we were in the city, the moon was big, bright and semi reddish orange. My phone couldn't get a great picture of it, so I'm not posting it. By the time we got home (15 minutes later), the moon was back to regular programming: whitish gray. 

I put our packages away, got out my Canon T7i with a EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Telephoto Zoom Lens and went outside. Yes, I also used a tripod, since I shot in manual mode. Must you ask? Haha.

Yup; I shot in manual mode, something I still need to work on. Out of 83 photos, I am only posting 20 something. Which is a lot for one object, I know. But you'll see I moved around a bit and did a little different focusing on this glowing celestial object. 

I still need practice. I admit to that. I am chock full of excuses as to why my photos aren't national prize worthy, but I take credit in what I've got. True, I did a minor edit of "sharpen" on these, slapped my name on them and posted them, but I've still got a long way to go with learning various other tricks to digital photography. That, and invest in proper materials such as a computer meant for creative work such as editing photos and video. As I don't have my monitor calibrated to do any editing, WYSIWYG with them. So on my laptop, it'll be different on your phone or when I decide to view them on my Vizio TV. Nothing is color matched to each other. 

It is what it is. 

But as evident in the photos, yes, I moved around. I zoomed in, I zoomed out. I got trees. I tried opening the focal lens a little more, I closed it a little bit. Just to attempt a decent picture. It is what it is. 

It is now 10:22pm and I've used up my time for the night. I'm sitting here squirreling away at other things instead of writing a blog post about how crazy the moon was last night and tonight. I've got to get to bed before my head lands on the keyboard (it's past my bedtime. I'm old. LOL).

Until I can sort my stuff out, go catch a falling star and put it in your pocket *.

Cheers;

* Track 46 - Perry Como, Catch A Falling Star, Today & Yesterday