The cold weather finally broke followed by rain. Finally there was a clear night with a quarter moon off my rear deck. I took the opportunity to work with the differences between spot and matrix metering -- matrix picks up the surrounding details, but washes out the details of the moon itself, while spot gives a true rendition of the moon and its surface, but the earthly surroundings are lost in the shorter ecxposures. These three shots were all taken wit matrix metering with varring levels of zoom (which can control the time of exposure depending on how much of the fram one can fill with the moon). I don;t know why the longer exposure in the last shot gave a significant sepia case, but I like it. All shots were "processed" with Photoshop Elements 4 by adding a bit of "shadow lightening." This brught out the surrounding trees better to give a very erie feeling to the picture. The middle picture was at maximum zoom (200mm) and the trees were lost to the shorter exposure of filling the frame more with the moon.