Supermoon

May 6th, 2012

Everybody talked about this phenomenon...Supermoon, where the moon will appear larger and brighter from earth as the moon's elliptical orbit is closest to the earth. During the night of May 5-6 it should have appear 14% bigger and 30 % brighter than the normal Full Moon. 

The photos of the last year big full moon were all over the media. Internet, TV News and off course Facebook and Pinterest (at least). That tickled my urge to get the image myself. As you can see from my photo gallery, I love natural phenomenon,  I love  beautiful sunrise and sunset, I love the magical view of full moons, I love dramatic rays of lights and cloud in the sky and love to capture it with my camera. 

I was never sure about the exact day as the news came from the other side of the world with a time difference. On the evening of May 5th 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, it was very cloudy and started to rain from 8 pm. See no moon... The next day, we were busy doing the weekend routines and I was working on my DIY project in the patio when I looked up at  the sky. It was this glimmering golden ball in the sky. No, it wasn't as huge as the images I saw in the media, but it was bright in the middle of a cloudy sky. Nevertheless I grabbed my camera and my tripod, run upstairs to the master bedroom window as I realized I didn't have the super tele lens to get the image closer. Click..click..click...there you go, this is the best I can do. There is no justice to the real thing I saw in the sky as my photography skills is limited, but it's my Supermoon..my own Supermoon....

A couple of hours later the sky opened and rained the whole night. I went to bed happy..I've got what I'm wishing for.