Day 171: The Planets Align

Historically March 25th has been a bad day for me. Today was a great day though, and the picture ideas just kept coming. As we left dinner though I noticed that the waxing moon was in between Jupiter and Venus. I have been wanting to get a good picture of this for a while now so I though that tonight was the perfect time. I was going to go out in the middle of nowhere to get this shot when I realized that I could get it from the driveway. I set up my tripod and tried a few long exposures to put together an HDR shot. I have had not luck with shooting HDR of the sky though so I took a couple of safeties near the end just to be sure. When I saw this picture in the viewfinder I knew that I had my shot. I have not had much luck shooting the sky yet, but I feel that I am getting better.