FTD Photography

12/10/2026

Last edit after stacking and masking. Bringing out the gentler greens in the distance!

12/10/2026

FRACTURED STILLNESS

📸 Camera & Equipment

* Canon EOS R6 Mark III
* 15mm lens at f/2.8
* 8-second exposure, ISO 3200
* iPad with Canon Camera Connect
* SmallRig RGBWW LED light
* Two exposures focus-blended for sharp foreground and stars
📍 Fyfield, Hampshire
🌌 Night photography experiment

11/10/2026

I’ve been told this one is more interesting. TBH I think it looks like a stone vi****or.

11/10/2026

What to do when you missed the Aurora but have a cracked mirror and some stones.

Honest opinions below please!

10/10/2026

Pigeon Pose

One of the local pigeons waiting to be warmed up by the rising sun ❤️

09/10/2026

❤️❤️❤️

Italian astrophotographer Marcella Giulia Pace spent 10 years photographing the full Moon from different locations across Italy, capturing 48 remarkable variations in its appearance.

Her collection, titled “Colors of the Moon,” was featured as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day on November 11, 2020. The photographs were arranged in a spiral, showing shades ranging from pale yellow and orange to deep red, blue and purple.

The Moon itself does not actually change color. Its surface is mostly gray, with subtle brownish tones caused by the minerals and rocks covering it. The different colors we observe are largely produced by Earth’s atmosphere.

When the Moon is close to the horizon, its light travels through a much thicker layer of atmosphere before reaching our eyes. Shorter wavelengths of light, particularly blue, are scattered more strongly, allowing orange and red colors to become more prominent.

Dust, smoke, pollution and tiny particles suspended in the atmosphere can create additional color variations. Under unusual conditions, the Moon can even appear blue or purple.

During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon can turn deep red because sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere is bent into our planet’s shadow. This is the same atmospheric effect responsible for the reddish colors of many sunsets.

Earth’s atmosphere can also change the Moon’s apparent shape. Near the horizon, atmospheric refraction sometimes makes the lunar disk appear flattened rather than perfectly circular.

Pace’s decade-long project demonstrates how a single astronomical object can appear dramatically different depending on the atmosphere through which we observe it.

Source: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day; National Geographic; Italian National Institute for Astrophysics.

09/10/2026

Sometimes it’s hard getting out the camera, but that shouldn’t limit the pictures you take!

02/10/2026

Happy to have made photo of the week! ❤️

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

The waning gibbous Moon, approximately 82% illuminated. 🌖

Here are five little-known facts about our nearest celestial neighbour:

• The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at around 3.8 cm per year.

• Although we often say we only ever see one side, a slight apparent wobble called libration means we can actually see about 59% of the lunar surface over time.

• The Moon experiences moonquakes, some of which can last much longer than earthquakes on Earth.

• It has an incredibly thin atmosphere known as an exosphere.

• With virtually no wind or rain, footprints left by the Apollo astronauts could remain on the lunar surface for millions of years.

📷 Photograph by Ian Smith — FTD Photography