I'm usually the last person to leave the shop when we close at 11 PM. As I was closing the gate on this evening, I noticed the wonderful full moon and snapped a few pics.

Keeping the trees in the shot gave the camera something on which to focus.

Playing with the settings allowed the camera to take in plenty of light for a bright picture at 11 PM.

From there, I turned my attention to the moon, itself.

This camera's wonderful 35x optical zoom lens takes surprisingly good moon pics.

Total zoom available is 140x, which is 35x optical and 4x digital.

Adding digital zoom has a tendency to make the picture unstable.

But this series of pics of the full moon turned out remarkably well.