Blood moon over Belgium

This weekend kicks off the first of three supermoons in the next three months.

I set out to the countryside just outside of Brussels in search of a good vantage point to catch the moon coming up on the horizon.

I almost missed it as there were some thin clouds, but then saw this gargantuan pink orb looming low in the sky. Soon it broke out above the trees casting a breathtaking and surreal orange pink glow.

My dogs kept busy digging holes. This is also a hunters moon. I suppose they were heeding the call.

This one was just before the clouds broke. I was shooting the big moon shots at 400mm (640mm on Canon SLR with 1.6x crop).

To give a sense of scale, this is what the same scene looks like wide-angle at the equivalent of 28mm. You can see that little white hut from previous shots as a tiny white spec to the left of the moon in the next photo.

I spied a flock of geese coming close and was holding out for a dramatic pass-over in front of the moon, but they went a little wide. I still really like this one.

Because sunset and moonrise were fairly close in time, the sky had not yet gotten completely dark which helped with the dynamic range of these pictures. This was one of my last ones before driving back home, after spying the moon next to an evergreen in my rearview mirror.

Hope you enjoyed these supermoon pics. Let me know what you think in the comments and please -

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