moon – Jennifer Sawicky Photography

April 13, 2025April 13, 2025

2025-04-13: Full Moon

While the full moon was yesterday, a one day difference is close enough for me to use it as a theme and share some travel images.

There was a full moon during my time in Savute, Botswana, and we had beautiful clear skies to watch the moon rise and sun set. Taking photos while also holding a glass of wine isn’t going to yield the best images, but it does yield some pretty fantastic memories, and that’s the most important part.

A zoom lens makes the full moon look even more impressive. We were all wandering around the vehicles during our sundowner stop and I kept having to find sturdy surfaces to set down my glass so I could take a photo. Savute, Botswana. April, 2024.

One of the people in our group commented that the sky was the colours of a lilac breasted roller, and now every time I am out and glimpse the sky in these tones, that’s what I think of.

We only stopped for a moment so I could capture this shot, as we were on a fairly long drive back to our camp and had set out a little later than planned from our drinks stop.

December 19, 2016

2016-12-19: Monochrome Monday

Something a little different for today’s Monochrome Monday. During last week’s full moon, the moonrise happened while I was out on my afternoon walk with Spencer. I hadn’t planned on taking any photos, but it looked so lovely rising above a farm in my neighbourhood, I had to try to capture a few quick shots. It was also -28C and standing still for any length of time was not going to happen (neither was spending much time without my mittens on!)

Handheld with a fairly slow shutter speed, I managed to get a clear shot, but it was so dark and noisy, it wasn’t going to work as a traditional landscape shot. So I played around instead, and came up with this interpretation. It’s very dark and moody, but I liked it and thought I would share.

Have a great week everyone!

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November 20, 2016

2016-11-20: What I've seen this week

It’s seems like such a long time since I have done one of these posts! I was planning to do one last week, but woke up Sunday morning to a computer meltdown instead – not quite how I was planning to spend my day.

I’ve got a bit of a mixed bag from the last two weeks… Fingers crossed I can get back into the routine of weekly photos again 🙂

Have a great week everyone!

20161120_what-ive-seen-this-week — I was very excited that the first time I’ve saw Bohemian Waxwings happened to be on a bright, sunny day.

20161120_what-ive-seen-this-week-2 — These were part of a larger group that were in my neighbourhood for a very short period of time. If I had left a few minutes later for my lunchtime walk, I would have missed them. 1/800 sec, f5.6, ISO 320

20161120_what-ive-seen-this-week-5 — This fox has become a fixture in the neighbourhood, but (s)he is very shy and scurries away as soon as Spencer and I get close. The weather has been to iffy to haul around my big lens, so zoom and cropping are my friends. 1/500 sec, f5.6, ISO 800

20161120_what-ive-seen-this-week-3 — For the Monday supermoon, I went on a field trip with my photo club. After a year and a half living here, it’s the first time I have been down to photograph the train bridge. All you can see of the moon is the light trail on the water. 0.4 sec, f4.0, ISO 2000 (Nikon D610)

20161120_what-ive-seen-this-week-4 — Same scene, different camera and a different interpretation. 0.3 sec, f3.1, ISO 1000 (Panasonic FZ1000)

December 7, 2015

2015-12-07: Monochrome Monday

August 24, 2015

Half Moon

I had hoped perhaps to see some northern lights last night as the predictions were for a good show, but that didn’t pan out. The moon however was amazing when I went outside at 10, so I went back and grabbed my 150mm-600mm to try to get a few photos. I’m sure if I had put it on the tripod, it would be a bit sharper, but all in all, happy with the result.

Half full or half empty??? A bright moon above Prince George. 1/1000sec, f6.3, ISO 1000 Tamron 150mm - 600mm on the Nikon D5100 (effective 900mm) — Half full or half empty???
A bright moon above Prince George.
1/1000sec, f6.3, ISO 1000, 600mm handheld
Tamron 150mm – 600mm on the Nikon D5100 (effective 900mm)