Sunday Stills

This week's theme is the moon. I was excited and worried about this one because I've been trying to get a good picture of the moon for a couple of months now. On the nights that it's clear here even a sliver of a moon looks very cool. But I haven't been having a whole lot of luck. Ed gave me some suggestions last week and I've been out almost every night trying to get the perfect shot. Here are a couple:

This one I took earlier in the month. It was a half moon and it was surrounded by clouds. I kind of like it.

This one was taken on Tuesday night. The problem (at least in my eyes) I was having is that it was not that dark. The sky was much lighter but nothing I did, no setting that I changed could I get it to look like I thought it should. I know that the camera doesn't see as well as the human eye but this was not even close.

Then on my way to work on Thursday morning I managed to capture this:

This is what I was trying to capture. Apparently there is a small window to catch a good moon shot and I was just missing it every night. Or I was in the wrong place. Could be my neighborhood is not a good moon shot taking neighborhood. Whatever. I like how this came out so I'm going with it. Now I'm heading over to Sunday Stills to look at the other moons.