Desert moon through the trees

Nikon F5, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D lens, Kodak Portra 400. Ridgecrest, California.

Here’s a photograph I shot back in fall of 2014, most likely. I would have to find my notebook of film shooting notes that I made at the time to confirm, but I don’t know where it is right now. (It’s probably in storage somewhere when it should be on my bookshelf. I’ll look for it soon, but just not right now.) When I shot this frame, I was still new to film and even the characteristics of my Nikon F5 and the 50 mm f/1.8 D lens that I shot it on. The crescent moon is so tiny in the photo, but I think I was well aware of that. The moon seems so much larger when we look at it, but we fail to notice how small it is in relation to the rest of what we see around it. Perhaps this says something about our attention and how what we see is real, but how we see it is not as real as we think we see it.

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