Blood moon

I went to Cyprus recently and took this picture of the moon with the most amazing colour. The shot was taken at around 10PM when the moon was languishing low and large towards the southern sky. Unfortunately I did not have a tripod with me so I had to rest my trusted D70 on a stack of old paperback books, hence the degradation in sharpness.


The shot was taken at f5.6 with a 1/4 shutter speed. Apart from cropping, slight desaturation the shot has not been changed in any way; the moon's hue is as recorded by my Nikon.