BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- Why is taking photographs of the sky so difficult?

I really love looking up at blue skies and interesting cloud formations, and moonlight and lightning, but somehow I never seem able to capture what it actually looks like.

The eclipse and the northern lights pretty much escaped me.

I finally did get a fairly nice shot of the full moon this past week, thanks to the framing of some trees. But though it was supposedly the closest moon of the year, it sure looks small in the photo.

I will keep trying.

My son, on the other hand, seems to be able to take wonderful photos in any condition.

He’s currently in Bangkok. If you go to YouTube and look up “A Thousand Words Travel,” you can see all kinds of fantastic photos he’s been taking on his world trip.

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