Moonrise

So it is no secret that I am enamored with the Pilbara landscape. At times it is dull and repetitive but all the while striking and extraordinary. I am convinced that the closest place like it...is Mars. Seriously.

A lot of people do find the Pilbara dull and boring,depressing and remote, hot and humid. But I find that it is intricate and interesting, exhilarating and free....and....hot and humid.

While driving home on the Millstream Road we stopped to take a photo of the sunset. There are gorgeous sunsets over the landscapes here - one day I will do them justice, but not this day. This day, after failing yet again to capture the colours of that sunset I looked behind me to the moon rising over the hills of the Chichester Ranges...or something similar to them anyway. (I once heard someone describe them as the chocolate tops). It made me think of a painting I once saw of a curtain being drawn over the sky as the sun went down, like covers to keep the world snug at night (or in the case of the Pilbara, a very light sheet) with that tiny heavenly body the sun uses to reflect its light to the world to let it know it is still here, and will return in the morning. Rays of hope reflected towards you, of the morning and the sunrise to come.

So I did what I do. I took a photo.

Canon EOS 50D, f/4.5 1/100 sec, ISO 320 22mm