Moon over farm field in Black and White

Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

By Eric Rose

19 December, 2025

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With another year nearly closed off it’s time to fondly review this years photographic adventures. It’s been a tough year emotionally as I closed down my darkroom, after 65 years of use, and sold/gave away a large amount of camera/darkroom gear. My days of backpacking forty pounds of large format gear into the Rocky Mountains are now unfortunately behind me. Analog gear for the most part is only being fondled rather than put to use. It’s been a couple of years of transition on many fronts.

On the positive side I have almost always had a camera with me whenever I left the house. All be it, digital. When processing my files I always look to my darkroom days to end up with an image that follows my analog spirit.

The image presented today was taken in broad daylight while my sweetie and I were out for a drive in the farm lands of southern Alberta, Canada. The processing is inspired by my old friend Bruce Barnbaum. While working in the same darkroom as Bruce, I would marvel at how he would print an image almost black and then bring it back to what he wanted with an artistic use of bleach. During the years when I helped my brother-in-law during harvest we would work well into the night and sometimes to the early morning. My “Best of 2025” image reminds me of walking back to the farm house in the pitch black of night.

Fortunately I have friends who can process my film for me, so I hope to use up the large amount of B&W and C41 film I have. Maybe my best of 2026 will be from an analog negative, scanned and printed.

The image above was created with a Panasonic S5II and 24-104mm Panasonic lens.

Eric

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Jonathan Murray on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

I love this image. The sense of desolation and the expansiveness of this wide open and wind swept landscape with the dominance of the sky and that moon is so well captured.
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

Thanks so much Jonathan! I have an ongoing fascination with what I call "the big empty". The beauty of it all is that it's not "empty" at all. Eric

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John Fontana on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

Ansel Adams ‘Moonrise’ re-visited and surpassed. A wonderful, wonderful image. I will come back to this many times.
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

Wow! John you flatter me! Ansel Adams 'Moonrise" was one of my favourite AA images, so certainly it was an inspiration. I tried to give it my own spin without it being a "ripoff". Now if I could just sell this image for even half of what 'Moonrise" goes for I would be a very happy man. AA was an inspiration in my early years of B&W photography but I eventually moved over into the Weston camp. I always found Weston's images more creative. Eric

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Art Meripol on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

One of the finest I've seen here in a long time. I think this is just superb! You need a big print of this.
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

Thanks so much Art! I plan on doing a 40 inch (102cm) wide print of it to go in my living room. I've checked it out for sharpness and it's still tack sharp at that size. If I had my camera on a tripod I could have had it make a 96MB file, however it seems it's sharp enough as is. Eric

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David Hume on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

Lovely shot Eric… And I agree with you about informing digital practice with film experience. Looking at that shot I wondered what it was shot on, which I think is a good thing as it was not obvious how you did it. Nicely done and the black sky brings in a bit of an Adams vibe!
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

Thanks David. I've been a B&W shooter for a VERY long time. It's the way my brain thinks when I am out taking photographs. I'm so glad I can still evoke the same "space" when creating digital images. I know just enough PS to do what I want and nothing more. Eric

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Umberto Fracassi on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

Dear Eric,
on reading the newsletter and watching your photo, it was impossible not to think back to AA's "Moonrise" masterpiece, as John recalls above And, like Jonathan, I found this image to have some quiet, vibrant solitude, but "rich", not empty at all. It truly is a wonderful image.

You mention it's been 65 years since you started working around your darkroom, so this suggests you've been around photography even a bit longer, which qualifies for quite a 20th century kid, who can capture this image without a tripod. What a great photographer you must be, Eric, presumably with a little more than 65 springs behind and an insatiable quest for beauty to be converted into light and shadows.
Long may run, Eric - and long may you capture light and shadow like this.
Umberto
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

Thanks Umberto, you are so VERY kind. God willing I will be out creating new images to share with you and others for a long time yet. When I'm out with my camera I don't have a goal of creating a great image. I keep my mind and heart open to whatever comes. Eric

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Bill Brown on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 19/12/2025

I agree with everyone else about this image. Just excellent! You did a splendid job processing the file. I have a b&w image from a West Texas cotton harvest that I worked in 1979 with the full moon rising which I titled Harvest Moon. If I may be so bold I would suggest Epson Exhibition Fiber paper. It has the look of a traditional darkroom paper with excellent detail rendering but the emulsion lends a depth and softness that gives the silver gelatin "feel". Great blacks too. My other recommendation would be Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta. I print on this paper regularly for one of my clients. I don't think you would be disappointed with either one. The Epson is a whiter base (some OBA's) and the Hahnemuhle is creamier.
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Eric Rose on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Thanks Bill! To bad you don't live closer, I'd get you to print it :) . Great advice too. Now that I don't have a darkroom I will have to get up to speed on digital printing.

Eric
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Bill Brown replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

I would be honored to make a print but shipping costs these days are crazy! Good luck on getting up to speed on digital printing. I've been at it (digital output) since 2006 eight hours a day, five days a week and and I'm still learning. My single tip is avoid over sharpening. This can produce halos on the edges of details and I say halos only belong on angels. The edge halos are detrimental to an analog look and are a dead giveaway that it's a digital print. I apply a very gentle sharpening at the RAW processing stage based on the sharpness of original capture and the final printed size. Be careful because a 40inch print will be very revealing. I have embraced digital but have never forgotten to pay tribute to my analog roots which go back to the early 1970's.

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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

The only thing I ever do is add a small bit of "clarity" in PS. Works best with RAW images but also has a beneficial effect on JPG's if not over done. Clarity adds a bit of local contrast. Eric

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Ben Mackey on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

What a superb image - it cries out to be printed so large that you would feel as if you could start walking across the field towards the distant horizon.

It would be fascinating to see how a print would look made using Olivier Desmet's technique (https://www.35mmc.com/15/11/2025/printing-digital-photographs-using-the-traditional-silver-gelatin-darkroom-process/)
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

I agree, but I don't have a darkroom anymore. I have utilized Olivier's process a time or two over the years. One thing I want to do in the future is use this type of process to make carbon prints. Nothing beats (well almost nothing) a carbon print for a satisfying 3D effect IMHO. I have many LF B&W negatives that I developed in PyroCat-HD just waiting to become carbon prints. Photography is so amazing as there are so many ways to explore our creative ideas! Eric

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Erik Brammer on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Truly a fantastic photograph which reminds, Eric, chapeau!
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Eric Rose on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Thanks Erik! We Eric(k)'s need to stick together :) Not sure what the reference to "Eric, chapeau" refers too??

Eric
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Erik Brammer replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Chapeau means hats off! :-)

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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Ohh, thanks again.

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Erik Brammer on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

… reminds me of photography Kevin Raber had created in the Palouse, is what I wanted to say. :-)
Your IR photo is just better in my view.
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

My photo is not IR. Someday I plan on picking up a converted camera, but alas don't have one as of yet. Eric

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Erik Brammer replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Wow, this is surprising! Even more impressive then.

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Leon Winnert on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Gorgeous.
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Thanks Leon :) Eric

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John Eaton on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Hi Eric. As others have already said everything earlier, all I can do is add my enthusiastic agreement -- this is a stunning image, I'm sure it will be truly impressive on your wall at home, a unique and timeless record of your skill -- keep up the great work!!
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Eric Rose on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Thanks John! I'm sure getting it printed will be the next adventure.

Eric
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Stan B. on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Nice pano!
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Eric replied:

Comment posted: 20/12/2025

Thanks Stan! Praise from an avowed grumpy New Yorker makes my day lol.

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Rollin Banderob on Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

Comment posted: 02/01/2026

Just saw it in the roundup - very nice!
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Eric Rose replied:

Comment posted: 02/01/2026

Thanks Rollin!

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