Crescent Moon in Dark July 4th Downtown by Ric Rosow

Submitted by Ric Rosow

Close to midnight I walked outside to view the downtown skyline. A waxing crescent moon was moving  across the sky to set behind downtown buildings. In the dark of night it is difficult to capture the foreground elements without blowing out the color in the moon to bright white. So I concentrated on retaining the colorful lights of the downtown buildings while keeping the deep rich color of the moon. At the same time fireworks were going off close by, their explosions echoing loudly off the adjacent buildings.

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