Gemini Rising

Last night I was lucky to witness & capture this magnificent moon rise in the constellation of Gemini. Throughout the day there was plenty of cloud looming around & I didn't think I would have much hope capturing anything but at around 5pm the sky cleared up so I thought I would go out & try to capture the rising moon. I got to Belongil Beach & it was howling Northerly which is not what you want for this shoot so I grabbed a second tripod for stability & setup as best as I could. There was a lot of cloud lingering on the horizon but my surprise enough of the horizon cloud parted to give me a stunning view of the moon rise.
You may notice in this Video to the left of the lighthouse there is a boom arm & some lighting. They are filming a large scale production in & around Byron Bay with Nicole Kidman called Nine Perfect Strangers & I luckily managed to capture the rising moon behind them whilst they were doing a take for the series.. Pretty cool I thought...
This Video is made up from 758 single images captured using Canon 7D, Canon 600mm IS ii - f/4 & Canon 1.4 extender giving me a focal length of 840mm & an effective focal length of 1344mm. Due to high wind at this shoot location there was a lot of movement from frame to frame so I had to do some work in Adobe Premiere Pro CC to stabilize the video once blended together. I captured the images to make this video on Belongil Beach, Byron Bay & was located 3.9 kilometres away from Cape Byron Lighthouse.
I hope you like this months take on the Moon rise from Byron & I would certainly love to hear any of your thoughts if you have the time? Also please feel free to tag someone that might like to see this Video.
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[@razsbags]

Beautiful!

[@davidh7517]

Top notch Luke.

[@myrushrider]

What camera do you use bro?

[@DylanODonnell]

Great work this month Luke!