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Puppe

1/50 second exposure, handheld at 500mm and ISO 1600, for the record.

Nothing Like the Sun

According to National Geographic (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100129-biggest-full-moon-2010-mars/):

The biggest full moon of 2010 will rise in the east tonight [...].

January’s full moon is also called the wolf moon, according to Native American tradition associating this month’s full moon with wolves howling in the cold midwinter.

The 2010 wolf moon will appear 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger than any other full moon this year, because our cosmic neighbor will actually be closer to Earth than usual.

The moon will be at its closest perigee—the nearest it gets to our planet during its egg-shaped orbit—for 2010 at 4:04 a.m. ET Saturday, reaching a distance of 221,577 miles (356,593 kilometers) from Earth.

Meet Ze Monsta

The Sigma APO 150-500mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM (otherwise known as the BigmOS) is an ultra-telephoto lens designed primarily to replace the range covered by their discontinued APO 170-500mm F5-6.3 DG model. It represents a fairly low-cost alternative to the high prices commanded by OEM lenses that cover the extreme end of the telephoto range.

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I’ve gone ahead and done it.  I’ve created a companion forum to this photoblog.  It’s right now being hosted at a free site, and I suspect that it will remain so until such time as it becomes necessary or desirable to do something about that.  I only hope that once it’s time to make the change, I can rescue the content without too much difficulty!

I’m going to spam the URL here, among other places, so that all my faithful readers can follow me there and join me in discourse that isn’t limited to threaded comments!  So … please feel free to join me on my little adventure.  Who knows?  It might turn out to be fun!

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