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As some astronomers would say, they look like novas but in fact they aren’t. These are the photos that I took during New Year’s, around midnight, from my apartment overlooking San Jose.

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Code|Beta Photography [http://www.codebeta.net]

Hello everyone…it’s been a very very long time since I last posted something on this blog. Last night the world celebrated the new year, as it has been done for many years, and one of the most common ways of celebrating is with the use of fireworks.

First off we have a shot of the moon, December 31st had what is known as a blue moon, this means that there is a second full moon in a month and the last time that a blue moon occurred on the 31st of December was back in 1990

There isn’t much to the shot above, it was taken using my 300mm lens, which I hardly ever use, @ ISO 100, the shutter speed of 1/125th of a second and the aperture was set at f/11. Would have been better if there were any stars or even clouds as it would have made for an even more interesting photos, but the clouds moved so fast when they were close enough to the moon that I didn’t manage to catch them…I wasn’t going to wait for an hour for another cloud to go by ;)

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On my way home from work I kept looking at the beautiful moon that was out but kept seeing it covered by heavy clouds or in some angles by light clouds but when I got off the cab at my house I looked up and was amazed at the fact that from that angle the moon wasn't covered by any of the clouds so I had to take a shot.

Originally I had planed to take the shot from the street in front of my house which would just have been the moon and the front of the house…well part of it but I was amazed when I saw out the window of the second floor of my house so I had to get on the roof of my house so I could get that shot which had the light of the moon reflected on the roofs of the other houses…so up we go and this is what came out of that adventure:

-LM