Moonlight Reflection in Upstate New York

Mike Acquesta - Seneca Lake Moonlight

Mike grew up in the Finger Lakes region of NY State. In the early morning of Oct 11, 2011, while vacationing in the area, he captured the above scene from the east side of Seneca Lake. He describes it as follows:

I positioned the camera so that the moon light reflection on the lake cut directly between the two docks. The reflection points to the opposite shore and towards the moon. The moon did a wonderful job of under lighting the clouds. When first looking at the picture, one immediately notices the bright streak of light extending up at an angle. As the eye passes through the portal created by the decks, I think you start noticing other aspects of the shot, including the deck silhouettes, the suspended boat, then the opposite shore. Finally the moon comes into view with the bottom lit clouds. I applied a minor touch-up in Camera Raw – exposure boosted ever so slightly, and that was it.

His camera was a Canon 40D set on manual exposure with a Canon EF-S 10-22mm wide-angle zoom lens, set at 22mm, aperture f/4.5, shutter 25 seconds, tripod mounted.