Sun and Moon in Lace

 

Intricate overlapping circles, as seen in the opening of Stargate SG-1 brought me to this design.

Early Road on the Border

Moon and Earth

Stargazing

By the light of the Moon

My first attempt at using impressionist techniques in digital sketching.

Lunar Pinch

Moonlight

Purim Moon (Largest for the next 18 years)

This picture was taken with the camera suspended from a rain gutter on the side of my house at about 11:15 PM. The camera is a cannon a700. I used a manual mode on the highest resolution with ISO 80 with a 2 second timer.

Red Moon (Lunar Eclipse)

Moonlight - Gradient and Opposites

Looking at the background of Think Geek one evening I noticed something really interesting with the background. First look at the top of the page then scroll to the bottom and you will see a different image based on where you were in the page. Initially I was confounded, then after studying the colors involved, I found the technique. The following is a very quick reproduction of it.

Basic ingredients
1) Two Colors for a Gradient (Black and White in this case)
2) Gradient from One to the other. If you reverse the gradient as seen below you will see the highest amount of contrast.
3) A massive amount of transparency prior to applying the gradient.


The triangular mountainside is black on a transparent background, as seen below in white.

The stars were the exact opposite.
Example of showing a close to full gradient from White to Black

Off-angle gradient for dramatic effect