Heroes Not Zombies

Although the camera exposure doesn’t let you see any of the details on the surface of the moon in this image, it’s one of my favourite photos of a full moon.

I took the shot through a tree and the bright light of the moon has turned the leaves into a silhouette.

So you could say that all the details have been obscured but somehow that just makes this image so interesting. It does a number of things for me. It sparks my imagination making me think of stories set in forests at night. It puts me in touch with two different cycles at the same time – the lunar cycle and Earth’s cycle of seasons. Finally, the foregrounding of the leaves anchors me solidly here on Earth, a human being who has emerged within Life on this little planet, stirred by a sense of wonder and awe at all I can see.