Images: Hunter's moon in the suburbs
People across the suburbs were greeted to a full moon Wednesday night - and a full-enough one Tuesday. A full moon that appears after the harvest moon in the month of October is called a hunter's moon.
According to the Farmer's Almanac, autumn is the time to hunt with the leaves falling and the deer fattened. Since the harvesters have reaped the fields, hunters, with the full moon's help, can easily see the animals that have come out to glean - and the foxes that have come out to prey on them. The earliest use of the term "hunter's moon" cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1710.
A large hunter's moon hangs low over the eastern horizon as seen from this Addison perspective.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
A leaf, framed by a hunter's full moon, hangs on before autumn catches up to it in Geneva on Wednesday.
Jeff Knox/jknox@dailyherald.com
As I photographed St. Charles East against Lake Park in a boys soccer sectional semifinal game in Addison Tuesday evening, I couldn't ignore the October full moon rising over the eastern horizon. I hoped for geese to cross the sky in front of the moon, but I realized that the Benet Academy boys soccer team was warming up in the field where the geese were nestled. I waited and watched and when I saw their drills end and the players start to kick the practice soccer balls high into the air, I knew I had a chance at a photo. The most difficult part was trying to photograph the game action I was assigned to, and quickly changing the exposure and spin around to try to catch a kicked practice ball as it crossed the full moon. I was lucky to catch the right moment. I used a Nikon D5 camera with a 200-400 mm lens set at 400mm. My exposure was 1/800 sec, f/13, ISO 5000. The photo may have had smoother grain with a lower ISO, but I didn't have time to make many adjustments between shooting two things at once that were 180 degrees from each other.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
A man stands on the roof of the press box during a football game at the Forest View Education Center in Arlington Heights Wednesday evening as the hunter's moon rises in the east.
John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Moonrise over Schaumburg.
courtesy of Chris Spoons
The hunter's moon in Schaumburg.
courtesy of Toby Large
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