It’s really cold here – well, it’s all relative of course but for November, to be below zero is pretty cold for Cornwall.

I had to pop to the supermarket tonight and the moon was looking utterly wonderful so I decided to catch it on a stick. However, I hadn’t realised that my plan for a perfectly exposed moon would mean that I got no detail on the mast and just the tiniest pinpricks of light from the red warning lights on the “stick”.

So, here is a shot that captures my “stick” but has a grossly over-exposed moon….a pro would, of course, have shot two pics, one exposed for the moon and one for the stick. However, it was pitch dark (and I do mean pitch dark – no ambient light except the moonlight), the moon was moving fast – I changed the position of my tripod three times in about a minute and a half, which was the time I was out of the car and shooting – any longer would have meant certain frostbite and dying of exposure on the side of the hill, being eaten by the beast of Bodmin Moor and someone finding my car, with a camera with the shots of my dying moments tomorrow when it’s going to turn a bit milder and we’re apparently going to have more rain.

That’s it then, a single exposure, not two shots stitched together (even if I was capable of such photoshop trickery, which I doubt).

I’m looking forward to rain – our 45 planted trees will get a good watering – yes folks, the remaining 15 in this batch are now in and hopefully as I type, they’re spreading their roots and getting settled in.

By the way – I shot this shot from an illegal position but I’m not going to say where!

Last year I was getting foodie hallucinations!