This past Saturday night (August 29), the Earth experienced another one of these occasional “Super Moon” events where the full moon is a few miles closer to the Earth than is normally the case.
I got permission to go up to the 30th floor terrace of the William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower State Office Building at the corner of Charlotte and Rosa Parks Blvd – it’s one of the highest points in all of downtown Nashville, and is the vantage point where I shot my entry in the Mayor’s Skyline Photo Contest back in 2013. Some of you might remember that shot:
Well, the management at the Tower has changed, but I nevertheless managed to finagle my way back up there for the moon rise this past Saturday. So here’s me, 30 floors up, waiting for the moon…
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According to my trusty photographer’s ephemeris, the super moon should be coming up right over the river in about 10 minutes. Image shot with iPhone 6 and edited in Snapseed.