Description
The harvest moon — the full moon closest to the autumn equinox — provides sufficient natural illumination for aerial photography without artificial light, creating a landscape photography aesthetic that is genuinely unique and has no digital simulation equivalent. This aerial photograph, made from a drone at 100m altitude under a September full moon, captures the Lincolnshire agricultural landscape in pure moonlight — the harvested stubble fields in silver-gold, the standing sugar beet in dark green, and the hedge networks creating dark boundaries between field panels. The image was captured at ISO 6400 with a 25-second exposure, and the moonlit colour rendition is accurate and unmanipulated.
