Insta-Millard, photography and astronomy edition: South DakotaHenge

December 23, 2013

How much image manipulation, if any, was necessary to capture this enormous-looking Moon rising over a South Dakota “road to nowhere,” close to the 2013 Winter Solstice?

From @GlobePics:

From @GlobePics: “Road To Nowhere – Supermoon” – Supermoon rises over this road to nowhere in eastern South Dakota. pic.twitter.com/82AoFgPvWn

Who should get credit for the photo?  (I can’t quite read the name in the lower left corner.)

Buy a print here, from the photographer, Aaron J. Groen.

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Kansashenge

July 15, 2012

Somewhere west of Dodge City, Kansas, on Woody Guthrie‘s 100th birth anniversary:

West of Dodge City, Kansas, on U.S. Route 50

Also:

Kansashenge, U.S. 50, west of Dodge City

Even farther west of Dodge City, Kansas, on U.S. 50, July 14, 2012

Surely there are much cooler alignments, with better photographers with more than a pocket camera for capture . . .