And that, too, is a proper use of a camera :) Quietly satisfying.

if you haven’t already, one thing to ask yourself is whether you should rotate the shot to make the leftmost verticals truly vertical. it’s not a question with a universal correct answer - with a photo like this, you could easily decide that true vertical will look too clinical and against the spirit of the rest of the photo, and that the “out of the camera” angle is better. And it is your opinion that counts!

Really satisfying photo…

Except for those paper cups.

A nice combo of crimes against the sky.

Though what it really needs is a few jet vapour trails, preferably with a jet in shot!

Perhaps try setting the camera to manual focus and a plausible distance - I almost feel sorry for auto-focus trying to make sense of what it’s seeing in those circumstances!

But a good experiment to try.

In passing, since you are learning about RAW format processing, you can do some quite extreme things to the luminance/histogram/gamma/whatever to bring out a little more detail in these sorts of shots, because the range of tones is rather narrow. Some also have fun boosting one of the colour components - “Mineral moon processing”.

If you get addicted to trying for the best possible moon shot, you may find https://clearoutside.com/forecast/ Useful for knowing when the nights will be clear

Also, don’t discount early morning/evening moon photos - there can still be enough details to make the effort worthwhile even in daylight (if you play with the RAW).

OK, I’ll bite, why “MilkTea” as a title?

Interesting article and photos within it, but what made you want to post this one here out of all possible interesting articles on photography? Can we look forward to your own work with stairs?