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Outstanding!
Great technique and breathtaking composition.

[quote="APOD CRITIC"]They should ask for a RAW, The lighting and shadows of the moon and external lighting do not match.

It's a composition of two different pictures on different days. I don´t think It's a single panoramic.

Beautiful, yes, but sad that this kind of photoshop images make in a creative photo montage become APOD.[/quote]
The Moon isn't bright enough to provide significant illumination. The landscape is illuminated from some other source, which we can't identify in this image. There is no reason to think it wasn't constructed exactly as described, from a series of images made at the same time.

They should ask for a RAW, The lighting and shadows of the moon and external lighting do not match.

It's a composition of two different pictures on different days. I don´t think It's a single panoramic.

Beautiful, yes, but sad that this kind of photoshop images make in a creative photo montage become APOD.

I like this photo; different, yet very smoooooth! :thumb_up: :thumb_up:

Imaginative and a bit eerie...

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