Mooning to the life

I've been sick for the past few days. Feeling feverish without any fever and feeling nauseous. I even threw up yesterday.
I've still been working though, in my job and in my life. I've still not managed to do some things.

The plan was to drop off the EOS 500D to the mail today to be shipped out to Africa, but we suddenly got a time to bank negotiation. We've been waiting to get an appointment as we are planning to buy a house, so this kind of got in the way of our schedules.

The time I we were finished (and we'll get a decision from the bank in 3-5 days), the post office was already almost closing. Even if I maybe could have made it, I still didn't want to go outside in the -20 Celsius degrees to save one day from the shipping.

It has been waiting too long already so one day more doesn't hurt anyone, I hope.

But as a good thing, I saw some awesome photos my photographer friends had taken of the moon. I have an old Canon 100-300mm lens so I wanted to test how good photos I can get from the moon using it. The photos are not that sharp and I can't get close enough, but these still look quite nice.

I even didn't need to stand outside, I had just pointed the camera to the right direction and used remote control to get the photos with different exposure times.

What an easy life.

Far too long exposure time.

Better exposure time

And too short. The moon is going dark.

The three images above can be seen in full size by clicking on them.

The moon is a symbol of darkness, even though it's actually really bright in the night and in the darkness.

The moon isn't dark. At least unless you are on the dark side of the moon.

I'll need a better lens for this.