The orange Full Moon – a hyped “super moon” – rises over a yellow field of canola.
What a colourful sky this was tonight – the pink Belt of Venus twilight band above the blue shadow of the Earth, above the yellow ripening canola.
And the orange Full Moon embedded in our planet’s shadow.
The onslaught of publicity about super moons this week – it seems we now have not one but several a year making them all a lot less super! – does serve one purpose: it gets people out looking at the Moon they might otherwise take for granted.
Supermoon or not, this confluence of colours can occur any time the Full Moon rises. But if you aren’t outside watching you miss it.
– Alan, July 12, 2014 / © 2014 Alan Dyer
The Amazing Sky 
Hello Alan- I am interested in your lovely photograph Super Moonrise Over Canola Field. I am a painter and would like to use your photography for a painting. What sort of fee do your charge for decent pixels? I would of course, credit you for original source material. Thanks so much, Mary
Thank you for your purchase. I’ll be interested in seeing the final art. Credit should be to Alan Dyer/AmazingSky.com
Holy Cannolli Alan! The colors are spectacular!
Beautiful!
Thanks Brett!
Indeed, a nice “confluence of colours”. Almost abstract.
Thanks, Alan.