VN #067: Stories of the Moon
Published: March 16, 2025
Stories of the Moon
The moon, which is the same age as planet earth, has meant many things to different people. The Romans, for example, called the moon “Luna”; a Goddess. For me, while exploring and photographing in the back-country of British Columbia, the moon has always been a companion. It keeps me posted on atmospheric conditions and I always keep an eye on its location when sleeping under the stars.
Over the years, I have captured many memorable experiences that I have shared with the moon. Here are a few.
Early one evening I realized the moon was on what appeared to be a collision course with a mountain. I set up my camera and waited…..
…..instead of exploding on impact, it bounced over the peak and rolled down the other side!
On an evening shoot in the grasslands, I asked Rita to communicate with the moon.
By exposing the light of the moon, I felt the spirit of the grasslands.
One day at a Christmas craft show in Vancouver, I lady came into my booth to have a closer look at a photographic print which displayed a full moon such as the one above. Later, in conversation, she asked me if I had even seen the ‘lady in the moon’. I replied that I had only seen the ‘man in the moon’.
After the lady revealed the ‘lady in the moon’, I have never been able to see the ‘man in the moon’ since.
I chuckle as I write this narrative, for I chose this image thinking it was a photograph of the moon. I then realized it was the sun, but I’ll share the experience with you anyway!
I was camped beside a remote lake in the foothills of the Coast Mountains when smoke from a distant Yukon wildfire drifted into the valley. As an orange eeriness swept over the landscape, the sun turned into the ball of fire that it is. I photographed it as it rolled along the mountain ridgeline!
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