Life In A Day, 7-24-2010, moon rise plus 1 hour.

UPDATE: News from The Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27th, 2011:

As it turns this 'moon' clip is the opening shot of "Life In A Day" (not the whole 7 minute clip but a useful few seconds). The 90 minute feature with over 80,000 submissions, 5000 plus hours edited by the genius team under director Kevin McDonald renders a compelling and substantial story. My name leads the list of the 392 or so contributors. I am completely humbled and honored to be listed with such a diverse, talented and creative bunch of people.

Please note this is the original raw unedited clip which is about 7 minutes long. What is used in the movie is only a few seconds from where the moon is about half way through the frame which makes total sense in the context of this film.


Life In A Day: Phil Loarie, Submission 9
TIME: July 24th, 2010, 9:26 p.m.. PDT
LOCATION: Richmond, California, USA
GPS: 37.909559, -122.359403


The camera was mounted on my car's dashboard to make the worlds largest tripod, well almost. This was done to make the image as stable as possible to capture the rising nearly full moon. The windows are barely open so the ambient sound is somewhat muted, once in awhile you can hear me exhale, seems the moon took my breath away. This is almost an hour after sunset so the warm ground level air of the day is rapidly rising and mixing with the cooler marine layer causing significant optical distortion of the the moon's surface. Astronomer's call it atmospherics but none the less it sure makes it challenging for both color temperature and image definition. Seems like we are seeing the moon through Jello--yummy.

Camera: Sony HDR-CX500v with digital zoom engaged at nearly 100x, exposure was manually set.

Copyright P. W. Loarie 2010

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