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Zach Cooley Photo Zach Cooley is a landscape and nature photographer currently based in Moab, Utah.

🌙 The moon has to rest sometimes too. This was my view of the moon setting tonight and leaning up against a big rock.🌙
10/16/2026

🌙 The moon has to rest sometimes too. This was my view of the moon setting tonight and leaning up against a big rock.🌙

🌗🍂 You may not believe me, but when I went for a week-long fall colors trip, I had no plans for moon photos. I can’t re...
10/13/2026

🌗🍂 You may not believe me, but when I went for a week-long fall colors trip, I had no plans for moon photos. I can’t resist when I see the opportunity present itself though. 🍂🌗

🌓 Tonight's moon 🌓
09/19/2026

🌓 Tonight's moon 🌓

🌲🌓 I wasn’t planning on shooting the moon tonight. In fact, I had a cancelled Milky Way trip due to overcast skies. I...
09/18/2026

🌲🌓 I wasn’t planning on shooting the moon tonight. In fact, I had a cancelled Milky Way trip due to overcast skies. I went out for sunset instead, and afterwards when I pulled into the driveway, I could see the setting moon near the rim behind home. I knew that if I went down the block a bit it would line up with this tree that I’ve known of for a long time and have captured with the moon before. It worked, here’s a photo of what that looked like. 🌓🌲

Single Exposure 🔹800mm 🔹 F/9 🔹1/160 sec. 🔹 ISO 200

✈️🌙 Saw something crazy tonight!  As I was capturing the crescent moon setting, this plane tried to land on it.  Apparen...
09/16/2026

✈️🌙 Saw something crazy tonight!  As I was capturing the crescent moon setting, this plane tried to land on it.  Apparently the pilot didn’t realize that the moon was still over 250,000 miles away! 🌙✈️

Single Exposure 🔹740mm 🔹 F/9 🔹1/200 sec. 🔹 ISO 100

🌩️ Believe it or not, sometimes I capture other things besides the moon. For example, in this photo here we see that I ...
09/08/2026

🌩️ Believe it or not, sometimes I capture other things besides the moon. For example, in this photo here we see that I captured lightning. Can you tell where it is? 🌩️

🌕🏔️ We were lucky to get a surprise dusting of snow on the mountains last week, and I wanted to take advantage of the re...
05/01/2026

🌕🏔️ We were lucky to get a surprise dusting of snow on the mountains last week, and I wanted to take advantage of the remaining powder on the peaks, so I set out to capture the moon with that in mind tonight. Between trying to predict what the clouds would do, and what composition I wanted depending on how that went, I ended up zig-zagging quite a bit. Parked in one place and started hiking, then changed my mind with what I wanted to to and so back to the car we go, then drive to a different place. Nope, this doesn’t seem right. Then after parking at a third spot I hiked back and forth trying to out-maneuver the clouds. Long story short, it was a beautiful evening to be out there. 🏔️🌕

🌕 Can anybody guess what town this was taken in? 🌕
04/29/2026

🌕 Can anybody guess what town this was taken in? 🌕

🌕 Peekaboo - the moon slips shyly from behind a jagged crown of stone. 🌕
04/28/2026

🌕 Peekaboo - the moon slips shyly from behind a jagged crown of stone. 🌕

🪾🌕 Many of the photos that I share have had hours of planning put into them. I use photography apps to figure out timin...
04/27/2026

🪾🌕 Many of the photos that I share have had hours of planning put into them. I use photography apps to figure out timing for my desired lighting and other elements, at times scouting out the location days, weeks, or even months in advance, and sometimes I even actually use math to calculate angles of elevation for accurate alignment. Miles-long hikes are normal. But then there are times I'm hiking back after one of those planned photos, and I'm almost to the car when I see a cool shot to get like this, so I pull my gear out again. Dinner can wait a little longer, these only take a few minutes. Such is life. I'll let you metaphor that one out on your own. Happy moon day! 🌕🪾

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