Orb of Plenty.

An amber-toned waxing gibbous moon rises behind a hill in Jindayris in Syria's northwest, on July 31. The "sturgeon supermoon", as it is known, is a term coined by the Algonquin people who knew that fish were plentiful around this time. Caused by the moon's proximity to the Earth, it will be followed by two more supermoons this year - one in late August and another in September. [Extracted from the article]

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