Once in a Blue Moon by leanndra
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Once in a Blue Moon
The first printed appearance of this expression was in 1528 in an item called, 'Rede Me and Be Not Wroth', well before the time of William Shakespeare.
The term 'once in a blue moon', means extremely infrequent; so rare an occurance as to be equivalent to almost never. It truly means there are two full moons in one month: 29 days between the first and second full moon in one calendar month.
In 1883, the Indonesian volcano, Krakatoa ( formerly a volcanic island between Java and Sumatra), exploded with the power of a 100-megaton nulear blast sending plumes of ash to the top of the earth's atmosphere. These ash particles, about 1 micron wide, scattered red light and allowed other colors to pass through the ash. When the moonbeams shone through the clouds, the moon appeared blue and sometimes green.
Other volcanos have caused blue moons to appear. In 1983 after the eruption of El Chichon (near Chiapas Mexico), people saw blue moons. There were reports of blue moons caused by Mt. St. Helens volcano (in Washington state, United States of America) in 1980, and Mount Pinatubo, (Luzon,Philippines) in 1991.
After doing more research on the above mentioned volcanoes, I decided to rewrite the information.
Leanndra
Apophysis 2.02
Postwork: PSP 7/Flaming Pear/Flood
Frame: mypatchesangel.com
Comments (12)
kat6523
Fabulous! Beautiful gradient and the whole image is composed so beautifully! V
Ruthee
It's still fantastic. lol My mind must be long gone.... I've seen this before! :)
Richardphotos
excellent work and info.. your fractal is quite eerie. I past Mount Pinatubo, only miles from the crator on my way to northern Luzon. it was quite unnerving to go through the ash fields. The highway that I was on was still under repair and detour went down through the creek(ash) beds-no water
idiot_sphinx
I too thought I was losing it :P Still a wonderful design !!~*****~!!
fractalinda
A beautiful visual representation.
miwi
Klasse composition !!!!!
artice
Like this one very much..nice affects and depth.very well renderd.
tutri
I see two faces in the middle section, one above the other, and they both look like they come straight off the tip of HR Giger's paintbrush...awesome and strange composition L.!!
Okwango
Marvelous composition!
WahlCat
Truly amazing image. there is so much going on here. The ships in the lower left are unexpected for me. !BRAVO!
blacq_nyght_vampyre
Amazing image!! Love the title.
CoolBreezeLady
OOOOOOH, I really like this one, Leanndra! You have a way of using deep rich colors on a dark background and then using just the right lighting to enhance you work!