Halloween Moon by Ric Rosow

Submitted by Mill District resident Ric Rosow

Are you ready for Halloween? This eerie looking image is a combination of seven images of the moon rising over Lake Superior in the evening, which were combined and blended back into the first moon image. I then blended that combined moon image into two photos of Minneapolis, one of downtown and the other of the river. Finally I blended in a photo of Puerto Vallarta. The blending process selects portions of each image based on lightness, darkness, hue, saturation or luminosity in the images being blended together. Sometimes the blending process produces very subtle effects, and other times much more dramatic, as with this image.

You can see more of my photography @ricrosowphotography, @treslechesartgallery and @nemaa.