Lake, Mountains, and Clouds

We spent the night at Tahoe Tuesday! My husband had a business meeting, so we spent the night before at the Sunnyside Lodge, where we had a wonderful dinner and a room overlooking the lake.  Before dinner, I took the opportunity to take photos in the afternoon and early evening.

When it was time for dinner, I left the camera in our room, and went downstairs to the dining room.  Just before our meal arrived, I noticed the couple at the next table was looking at something outside, but when I looked out, it looked like just the same scene I had photographed before dinner.  Finally I got up to see the view from their vantage point and saw the MOON- reflecting on the lake.  I ran upstairs to get my camera and joined the lady from the next table as we tried to capture the beauty of what we were seeing.  She also had a Nikon (maybe a D5100?), and we struggled with settings as the moon slipped behind the clouds- and then was gone in a matter of just a few minutes.

So here is the moon as it went back behind the clouds. Sigh. And I have tried to ignore all the beautiful full moon photos (taken with cell phone cameras. . .) on Facebook.

I used my new Silver Efex Pro plug-in to convert this photo to black and white.

Regarding Silver Efex Pro:  If you have purchased any of the Nik software suite within the last five years, you may have received an e-mail from them a few days ago, giving you the entire suite for FREE.  My e-mail was in my spam folder.  I am thrilled to have all these new toys- but have no idea how to use them yet.