Technically November is the “Beaver” moon,but because of my lucky shot showing Romeo’s talons silhouetted against a almost full moon,I’m calling November a Talon moon.
Having said that, here is the actual description on a Beaver moon. Click on the dot.
Nice alignment of elements there!
thank you Audrey……sometimes the planets align….and than sometimes the eagle/moon does!
Amazing capture, Wayne. :)
thank you Lynette,It all came together for me…..thanks my friend Romeo!
Wow! That is really eye-catching!
Thank you Anne and it happened very quickly too! I knew where he was going to perch,Romeo always perches here!
Knowing where the eagle was likely to go would not guarantee such an excellent shot. You are talented!!
thank you Anne,I try my best.
Excellent shot!
thank you Emma! He’s almost paintable?
Yes, for a better artist than me, Wayne!
but I thought da Vinci was dead?
Oh you are funny!!!
A day without a chuckle is like a day without sunshine!
Hi, Wayne,
This is one fantastic shot! Talk about everything being where it should be, eh? Am so glad that it was dear Romeo who made this so brilliant!!!!! Talk about you being in the perfect spot for the perfect shot. Just wow!!
Angie
Hello Angie – So good to hear from you! Your probably the longest surviving member of Wayne’s World!
Romeo has been and will continue to be a great study! He very rarely fails me!
Marvelous capture, Wayne! ❤
thank you Donna!
You must have been pleased when you checked and found this one Wayne. The eagle is so crisply outlined and so are the talons. Hats off !
thank you David but because it was low light conditions I had to boost the ISO,which in turn created more noise making the picture not as crisp as I normally get!
Wow, this is a lucky shot, Wayne.
very lucky! Thank you Robbie!
Pure Magic….!✨✨🌕✨✨🦅💙
thank you Merit!
My greatest pleasure, always!🌏🦅💛 Thank you for sharing Magic!🌠
Sometimes one has the moon and stars aligned … not everyone has the moon and their eagle aligned! This is an amazing shot Wayne.
thanks Linda,sometimes things work but most times they do not!
Romeo decided to lend a hand, er … a talon, to make this shot so special. Well yes, you helped too.
he’s always so obliging to visit! I thought about going out last night but realized I only had about 85 minutes of sunshine left in the day. The sunset did turn out to be pretty good,so missed it unfortunately!
Enjoy that sun and sunset when you can. Yes, that sun is going down around 5:00 these days and today was very gray, so likely my sensor light was on by 4:45.
It was sunny when I went out this morning but as expected it clouded over!
Sunset for us tonight is at 4:34 pm (7:34 pm your time)
Way too early – wait til December, it will be 4:00 p.m.! I can remember getting out of work at 5:00 p.m. and it was pitch dark. Didn’t worry about it downtown as there were people rushing out of office buildings and heading to bus stops – no worries in those days. Most people who worked in Detroit took the bus as it was expensive to park even for a few hours.
ya,I remember living in Calgary and walking home in the dark.
Left for work in the morning in the dark as well and likely you did the same – sigh.
this year might be the last year we change the clocks! Washington,Oregon and California are all doing the same thing. So the entire west coast will have the same time! We still do not which one is going to used,Standard or DST?
Wow – I didn’t know that! Our news is just filled with politics only anymore or bad weather events. I haven’t heard the news all day as they have U of M Football on and then a basketball game at 8:00 – the streaming service is not working, likely too many people made it crash. That is interesting – I know all the sports fans and also people who watch the various awards ceremonies will be happy to hear that, especially since most of those awards events are on a Sunday night and run til 12-1:00 a.m. and the next day is a workday. How do you feel about that permanent time change for going out at night to shoot sunsets? In the Summer you are often up late by the time you get home from a shoot and look at your photos and then post … I notice the late hour in the posting time. They have legislation here all the time to eliminate DST but it never goes anywhere.
I do not know which time we’d be using?
Plus it would only be for the west coast and not you guys as well.
People here complain when they have baseball, basketball and hockey games that don’t start until 8:00 West Coast time so they don’t stay up and watch the games (most of our sports teams stink to begin with without staying up late to watch them- maybe they ought to get Mike Babcock back now that the Leafs fired him – since he left, the Wings have really tanked.
ya,three hours is a big difference but that won’t change if we stick to either standard or DST.
I do not know much about Babcock other than he seems to get fired a lot. He’ll have another job before Christmas I bet and make more millions.
Can’t feel sorry for someone who makes a lot of money no matter who they are.
I see … I don’t really follow sports, but I do hear the big headlines and it was quite explosive here when Mike Babcock left a lucrative renewal of his contract about 5 years ago to coach the Leafs as they had been such a bad team for years – Babcock said he would take them to the playoffs. Red Wings fans were mad at Babcock, called him a traitor- they said he was egotistical and wanted a Cup win for himself, not the Leafs who gave him a big contract and he has some years left on it – now the Wings fans want Babcock back as the Red Wings are tanking. Sports fans are so fickle- twice this week, college athletes have had to shut down their social media accounts since “haters” are sending vile messages to them. I can’t feel sorry for anyone making millions of dollars either. Why not retire and coach youngsters instead – not everyone thinks like me though.
Canada’s Grey Cup is on today,which is out Super Bowl equivalent. I’m not a big sports fan,too much booze for me. If you were to take booze out of the equation sports as we know it would disappear!
I did not grow up in a sports household – my father never watched sports and I had no brothers … back then only males watched sports pretty much. My grandparents, however, never missed wrestling at Maple Leaf Gardens every Saturday afternoon. If we visited on a Saturday, they were glued to the TV rooting for Bobo Brazil, the Sheik and other cast of characters. The Super Bowl is just a food and drink fest – they watch the commercials more than the game.
I remember that “Stampede Wrestling”. With Whipper Billy Watson” and many others. I’m surprised they didn’t go down and watch them live.
I remember that name too and also Bruno Sammartino. I don’t think they ever saw wrestling (or rasslin’ as they called it) live at the Gardens, always on the B&W TV.
turns out Stampede Wrestling was centred out of Calgary. The one in Toronto was called “Maple Leaf” wrestling!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_Leaf_Wrestling
Look up Whipper Billy Watson’s bio page.
Interesting reading the history of Maple Leaf Gardens for wrestling/hockey – thanks for the link. I think my grandfather watched hockey too sometimes, but my grandmother, just the wrestling. I looked down the list – I remember Lord Layton, but not as a wrestler, but a commentator for the wrestling matches.
I can’t say I remember this guy Whipper Billy Watson and he seems to have been the most famous of all the wrestlers, especially with the charity deeds, even after he was hurt by the freakish car accident. He does not seem so “hulky” as they are either. I don’t think the wrestling back then was as “staged” as it is now. A few times my mom/I watched it on a Saturday night – it came on after the 11:00 p.m. news and they seemed more intent on nearly killing each other and yelling and screaming, much more flamboyant than in the early 60s.
yes,the wrestling these days is very choreographed! Much fancier moves!
A lot more stomping … on feet and heads (the referees seem to turn their head sometimes). Much more flamboyant too. Of course that could be because it is in color and not B&W!
just read about “The Sheik”. He lived in Williamston Michigan. You know where that is?
I have heard of it, and just hopped on Google maps – it is just 76 miles away. Last night I was remembering Dick the Bruiser also … he was from Detroit, in fact, there were a couple of morning FM disc jockeys in the 80s and 90s,and they had a recurring “visit” to their show from “Dick the Bruiser”.
I remember the person who impersonated this wrestler sounded like him, though most wrestlers talk in a gruff and loud voice with their “threats” to their opponents.
a by gone era to be sure.
It appears Dick the Bruiser played with the Greenbay Packers. He was injured in the throat which gave him a gravelly sounding voice. That injury came back to kill him later in life. He died of internal bleeding due to this injury.
I just read up on Dick the Bruiser. I didn’t realize the real reason for the gravelly voice – I assumed that he had the voice just like the others, trying to sound gruff and mean. I remember that bar fight with Alex Karras, also well known around here and hearing about it. All these names and all of them gone now.
yes,very few left and the ones that are left we probably wouldn’t recognize I bet!
He looked like a character!
Yes, they are pretty beaten up and likely have taken one too many knocks on the noggin. He did look pretty mean in that photo on Wikipedia, that’s for sure!
Yup, a talon moon! Great shot, great timing.
those talons would make Scout jump pretty high I bet If she got them on her rear end!
Absolutely breathtaking, Wayne! It looks like he is about to land on the moon. Thank you so much for sharing! 💞
“The Eagle has landed” Good one Betty and thank you for dropping in,your always welcome!
😊 My pleasure and thank you for your hospitality, Wayne!
Spectacular capture of the Talon Moon, Wayne!
thank you Sabine! I love trying to get shots of the moon with one of my eagles in the foreground! Most do not work out and even this one is marginal as I found it has too much noise due to the low light/high ISO.
Wow so amazing Wayne love your works ☺️🤓
thank you Hedy!
Fantastic shot!
thank you Simone!
It rather looks like an eagle’s moon. So wonderful!
but only the talons are in front of the moon,ergo Talon Moon
What an amazing photo. Talon moon is perfect.
I thought so too Lisa and very happy you enjoyed Romeo doing his thing!
Beautiful talon moon photo, Wayne!
thank you Lavinia! The moon doesn’t come up behind Romeo’s perching spot very often.
Spectacular!
Thom
thank you Thom! Everything just came together!
Such a great photo!
thank you!
Incredible eagle photo, Wayne, on this talon moon.
thank you Jet! He perched perfectly for me!
An exquisite capture for November! :) Thanks!
thank you Bette! I actually didn’t post it the evening I shot it. It took me awhile to warm up to it. It’s the noise in the shot. I only try for crisp!
That’s a sweet sweet capture
lucky shot to be honest Josh
Wow, incredible image!! 😍📸
thank you Gav, lucky shot to be honest,
You were out there doing your thing, that’s what made it possible, all credit to you! 😉