Autumnal Equinox Eve Sunrise In Montreal Freya's Day September 21, 2012

Waxing Crescent Moon With Mars Over Port Of Montreal Grain Silo

Montreal Skyline At Night With Aida Aura Cruise Ship In Port September 19 2012

Aida Aura Cruise Ship Arrives In Montreal Tuesday September 18 2012

Aida Aura cruises past the Vieux Port de Montréal marina

soon after sunrise on Tuesday September 18, 2012.

Aida Aura prepares to dock at the Iberville Cruise Terminal

of the Port of Montréal with Habitat 67 in the background.

Montréal skyline image in Sony Alpha A57 HDR Paint mode

Aida Aura cruise ship docked at the Iberville Cruise Terminal.

Montréal skyline image Sony Alpha A57 "Toy Camera" mode

Aida Aura cruise ship docked at the Iberville Cruise Terminal.

Sony Alpha A57 in "Rich Tone" B&W mode

Grands Voiliers Tall Ships With Fireworks Vieux Port De Montreal Thor's Day September 13, 2012

Neil Armstrong Tribute Alexander Calder Man With Moon

The August 31 2012 Blue Moon With The Alexander Calder Sculpture 'Man'

I had hoped to get a photograph of the August 31, 2012 "Blue Moon"

rising behind Alexander Calder's sculpture 'Man' on Ile Sainte-Hélene

as a tribute to the late Neil Armstrong and the Apollo moon missions

but the weather gods did not cooperate. There was a large bank of 

clouds to the east that obscured the rising "Blue Moon". 

When the moon finally deigned to peek through a gap

in the clouds it was already well above the horizon

as may be seen in the photo above.

So, as much as I was hoping to get a "straight" unmanipulated photo

of the 2012 "Blue Moon" rising behind and/or hovering above 'Man', it

looks like I'm going to have to Photoshop one of the the unobstructed

shots of the August 31, 2012, "Blue Moon" that I took later in the

evening last night when the moon rose higher than the cloud bank 

into one of the photographs of Alexander Calder's 'Man' below that 

I took when the moon *should* have been rising behind it. . . 

The three photos below were taken when the August 31, 2012

"Blue Moon" appeared between gaps in the cloud bank as

it was rising considerably higher than the Calder sculpture.

The moon lacks detail because I exposed for the clouds and sky

rather than the moon. I also took properly exposed shots of the

moon alone which can later be Photoshopped into these images.