Moonrise in the moor

It was still nighttime, and the sky was getting more and more overcast, so that the stars were no longer visible when I hiked along the trail into the moor. When I reached the observation tower, I set up my camera equipment. The only lights on the horizon were the flashing warning lights of the wind turbines. I was already disappointed that everything was overcast when I suddenly noticed a bright light on the horizon in the southeast. White light. But it was difficult to make out through the cloud cover.

A few minutes later, the old moon — a few days before the new moon — could be seen as a thin crescent behind the clouds. I quickly switched to my telephoto lens and also to portrait format because I noticed the reflection of the moonlight in the water and wanted to capture it. The crescent moon stood out beautifully against the clouds, and the veil clouds also glowed around the moon.

It was only later that I noticed a colony of cranes standing in the water by the row of trees in the foreground.