Photo Challenge: Distant
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Mark Showalter
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Night lighting near and far

I was unsure whether the moon and a street lamp would be similar enough in surface brightness that I could get a reasonable exposure of both of them at the same time. Turns out they were. I needed a small aperture and a long exposure to get them both in focus, however. I have no idea why the moon turned out so blue---perhaps because the sodium light confused the auto-white balance on my camera. I thought it made a nice contrast so I left it alone.