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Windmill in Moonlight - Near Grand Island, NE - 2005

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I was driving through Nebraska in the dead of night, passing through countless
small towns with grain elevators as the center of attraction.  Somewhere north of
Grand Island I drove past this low area where the fog had settled and the moon
illuminated it.  I spent about an hour in the near zero weather trying to get just
the right shot.  The exposures were necessarily long to get enough light on the
ground, but then the moon had movement and ruined the shot.  Finally I settled on
a long exposure for the ground and a short one for the sky, combining them in
Photoshop to get the best of both shots.