A Glacier magically floating in the air, outshining the Supermoon
19 Nov 2016 22 Sep 2017 • Abrie Joubert
The Supermoon having hit the skies this week, filled me with quite a bit of photographic frustration; almost anxiety! My camera is in for repair and the parts must be ordered from Singapore thus no quick fix in time for Supermoon 😦 and no photos of said moon.
Knowing that snapping the moon with my Sony mobile phone would be nonsensical, I drove around to find something to photograph in the relation to the moon (just to feel as if I am part of the hysteria). I had a building in mind which is lit up in the evening and changes colour every few minutes but alas, it wasn’t lit (maybe in honour of the supermoon). I drove further to take a photo of the Glacier building but it was the signage which caught my eye. The image turned out to be magical enough to fit in with this weeks WordPress photo challenge. A super bright super glacier floating above the moon but outshining and upstaging it.
With the correct settings I could have taken this image with my Nikon camera, but I wouldn’t have as I would have focused on the moon itself. Often in life we are confronted with a non-ideal situation, thinking that we are loosing out, maybe on life itself. But these situations brings other opportunities – it releases the magic we would have thought not possible. Now I am not a believer in magic, but I am believer in the God who turns things around and open our eyes to life itself.
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18 thoughts on “A Glacier magically floating in the air, outshining the Supermoon”
19 Nov 2016 om 2:49 nm
Pragtig en baie waar. Ons moet net bietjie rondom ons kyk. Soos jy sê.: God sal geleenthede wys as ons net vra vir oop oë om by die wêreld verby te kyk.
19 Nov 2016 om 3:04 nm
Dankie Danie, daar is ‘n Ameriaanse ruimtevaarder (in die Space shuttle era) wat gese het: the best is never the best and the worst never the worst.
19 Nov 2016 om 3:22 nm
… en my ma het gesê, as daar ‘n deur in jou gesig toeklap, maak daar ‘n venster bo jou oop – kyk net op.
19 Nov 2016 om 3:43 nm
Wyse ma van jou, nou weet ek na eie jy aard!
19 Nov 2016 om 5:55 nm
Good job and my favourite thought: “just to feel as if I am part of the hysteria”. Well done 🙂
19 Nov 2016 om 11:21 nm
Thanks Gale,in the end the supermoon with all the hype was less super than I expexted it to be and strangely enough I was sowewhat relieved as I did not have camera to photograph it.
19 Nov 2016 om 7:42 nm
‘n Besonderse inskrywing. Jy stel nooit teleur!
19 Nov 2016 om 11:24 nm
Baie dankie Tina jy imspireer my
20 Nov 2016 om 10:05 vm
Wys jou net wat gedoen kan word. Waar daar n wil isis daar n weg!
20 Nov 2016 om 9:06 nm
20 Nov 2016 om 11:15 vm
Pragtig,Abrie…jy het iets anders raakgesien!
Ek was bevoorreg om in die oop veld te wees op ‘n houtbruggie in ‘n moeras…daardie maan en oomblik was ongelooflik!Muskiete het ook so gedink.
20 Nov 2016 om 9:08 nm
Altyd goed om te weet dat die maan universeel waardeer word. Dis natuurlik nie die muskiete war ‘n probleem is nie maar die raakskiete…
20 Nov 2016 om 5:08 nm
20 Nov 2016 om 9:04 nm
21 Nov 2016 om 10:38 vm
Baie waar Abrie!
Ek hoop dit gaan nog goed met jou. Ek is nogal nuuskierig wat gebeur het met die tarentale en die katties van jou!
25 Nov 2016 om 8:07 nm
Very cool! I didn’t to see the moon, it was a rainy and cloudy night.
30 Nov 2016 om 4:44 nm
Dit is ‘n besonderse foto…. en ek is bly jy kon deel uitmaak van die “hysteria.” Jy laat my altyd op ‘n manier glimlag en daarvoor is ek baie dankbaar.
30 Nov 2016 om 5:05 nm
An infinitesimal fish and a fishy church
A time for exploring a fistful of chivalry