Explosion
by Garry

Comment:
Great job Garry and a perfect subject for BW. Surprised to see no comments!

The Great Hall
by Pixelstate

Comment:
Absolutely love it! I didn't know you could get up there :). I love the selective greyscale.

Six degrees of separation
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:
Very interesting! I want to know more about the process.

Red night
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:

Originally posted by hahn23: Doesn't look like any total lunar eclipse I've ever seen. And, I've seen a few and photographed several. How about you? Voters were deceived.

Amateur astronomer for 35 years here. Naturally, I've seen many eclipses and this could definitely look like one, with some added processing for fanciness. In fact, your image, which I rated higher because you included context (Spica), can look exactly the same with some small amount of processing. Of course that's not how it looks in the sky, but still a good one - astrophotography is not always about faithful reproduction. That's why I think Alex's photo is an interesting effort.

I don't think it's fair to speak about voters other than yourself. And anyway, if you say you know how an eclipsed Moon should look and this is not it, then I guess you were not deceived by this photo.

By the way, Spica is not an optical but a spectroscopic binary star (this is for the comment on Wendy's photo), so you can't tell if it is a binary from looking at a photo.

Sorry Alex for abusing this space...

Phonebox
by Paul

Comment:
Fantastic, an image made to win. In its own concept, it's almost too perfect, everything is perfectly cut, nothing out of place. I almost want to find a flaw. But I'm repeatedly drawn to that path in the distance, reminding me of DaVinci. Fabulous, congrats on the double blue!

Red night
by Alex_Petrini

Comment:

Originally posted by hahn23: But, that's not the way a total lunar eclipse looks. I guess no one seems to care.

I disagree with both these statements. A lunar eclipse can look like this. And giving this image high votes does NOT mean people don't care. It's a good artist's impression of a lunar eclipse.

Flutter
by streetpigeon

Comment:
How beautiful, congrats on the ribbon! The title matches the rhythm, so well done.

Herring Gull, Afternoon Light
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Lovely feathers!

Happy Mugshot
by tryingtostayinfocus

Comment:
What, where did the happy fella go :-( so sorry about this, I really love that mug! Tanguera is right, that's why I always keep my originals on the CF card until it's over. Needed them only a couple of times, but just in case of 40 DQs :-).

A Strange Quest
by gyaban

Comment:
Congrats on the blue, Christophe!