Full Orange Moon through Lit Branches

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On a winter night in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, I saw a large, orange full moon rising, low and bright. I rushed to a church that I knew had a view from a hill, arriving barely in time to catch the moon through tree branches, still orange. Lit artificially by spotlights trained on the church steeple, the branches stand out in high contrast, yet against the moon’s natural light, the artificial light cannot sustain. The branches recede into full blackness, or else they become tinged more by the moon than the spotlights.

Full Orange Moon through Lit Branches
The image has a bright orange moon in the center. In front of it are about twenty tree branches, mostly vertical, lit from one side by an artificial spotlight.© Randy Heffner inspect image detail »
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  • Title: Full Orange Moon through Lit Branches
  • © 2025 by Randy Heffner, all rights reserved
  • Digital photograph
  • Native aspect ratio is 3:2, so uncropped print sizes include 6x4 inches, 12x8, 18x12, 36x24, and 60x40.

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  • The image is available in a limited edition of 30 signed prints, personally signed and color-checked by the artist.
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15 Jul 2025; updated 19 Jul 2025
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Randy Heffner

Randy lives at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and culture — reading, watching, walking, and sometimes creating in search of our better selves. Film and photography have a lot to do with it, but anyway, art. The tie is an anomaly.

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