Earthshine Moon Above the Basilica

A photo composite of two exposures. From the photographer: “I had long planned to take a shot with the Piazza Armerina Basilica in the foreground. I cannot say whether five years is a few or many, but the ideal conditions for capturing the thin lunar crescent occurred only yesterday. Sometimes the weather but also personal commitments prevented me from taking this image. Certainly the occasions when it was possible to align the lunar sickle were very few indeed!

Waiting for time is a not insignificant part of the pleasure of making these images. Photographs pursued with heart and mind, with the sole purpose of promoting the beauty of Sicily under the starry sky. And beauty asks nothing more and nothing less than sacrifice and above all requires the photographer to be in tune with the places, because it is only in this harmony that the soul of a photograph is revealed and the image becomes history: the history of beauty! the history of this fantastic land! Enjoy the basilica of Piazza Armerina dedicated to Maria Santissima delle Vittorie with its imposing dome towering over 70 metres and its bell tower that seems to reach out to touch the moon.”

Technical details:
Canon 6d, Sigma 150-600mm @200mm, f/5.6, iso 200, HDR 20 – 0.3 sec
Moon: iso 800, 2 sec, f/5.6