Yo
Charley,
Check
out my first National Geographic magazine cover (September 2001).
I made the photograph while in Egypt teaching a photo workshop some years
ago. The
second image that I'm attaching, the one with the moon, was made the same
night. I double exposed the moon on the spot in an effort to come
up with a photograph that was different from those of the photographers
who had set up tripods to my right and left. (I arrived at the "light
and sound show" early to find a spot where the sphinx was directly lined
up with the background pyramid).
Because
so many shooters were there I looked around wondering how to make my image
different and noticed the moon rising behind us. As inconspicuously
as I could I clipped the camera off the tripod, stepped back a few paces,
put on the 300mm lens, shot the moon, then returned to the 80-200 zoom
and tripod and, since the pyramid and sphinx were sometimes lit one at
a time, waited for them both to be lit to make the second exposure.
Voilla! Geographic has used the moon version 4 times prior to this
cover useage (book, film strip, poster, in-house mural).
Although Geographic was aware that I double exposed the moon, I think they opted not to use it as the magazine cover because a few years ago they caught flack for altering a cover image, coincidentally a pyramid photo. They probably decided that using "straight" photographs is the only way to avoid such problems.
Anyway, it's been a dream for 30-some years to have a photograph in National Geographic Magazine. And here it is on the cover! Yee-haw! Would you post this to my fellow classmates? Thankee much.
Best,
Bill