First, the last day I will take orders for holidays to arrive in time for Christmas is December 7th.

I’ve been photographing the different phases of the moon lately. While a full moon is interesting due to the entire disk being visible, the moon has more texture and depth at other times when the sun is lighting it at more of an angle. The above photo was taken on November 6 and the one below was taken on November 20, for comparison. While both images were shot with a long telephoto lens, I still needed to crop about 50% of the image for the moon to look this large in the photo.