I Think My Lunar Navigation Is Broken

Greetings, Fellow Lunatics and other Photographer colleagues!

My Lunar guide, the Moon itself, has left me stranded. Has your Lunar guide ever left you stranded? You know what I am talking about then. No? All right. I'll explain.

So far ,I have been able to discern, pretty accurately and without the help of any modern app, the direction from which the Sun will appear at sunrise. Pretty much every morning by the sea when I went out for a session. You know, in order to catch the sunrise, you need to wake up earlier than that and get to your spot before the Sun is officially up and shining.

The sky would already be light enough so that you can see colors. And the Moon would be lit from below and at an angle. Using that crescent, I would imagine it's a bow. I would draw an imaginary string connecting its horns. I would fire an arrow and it would point where the Sun shall appear on the horizon.

And so...this one managed to baffle me.

Camera Settings:

Aperture F 4; Shutter Speed 1/1250 of a second; Light Sensitivity ISO 200; Focal Length 98 mm.

Camera Model:

Canon EOS 30D with a 70-200 4 L zoom lens.

Perhaps, it's the far from crescent state that distorts my strategy. I might be mistaken in my judgement as to where the best lit part lies.

It's a bit after Sunrise. The shadow of the closest chimney tells the story of where the Sun is quite well.

But as to the Moon, I see the bottom right section as a bit of more blurry, so the light should be coming from top left.

What could it be? My eyesight? An optical illusion? Atmosphere distortions? Anyway. What do we do when the moon is full or near full? Except howling at it, I mean...

Peace and Space Parsley!

Yours,

Manol