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Long exposures, a cold tripod and the one cloud that refused to leave. I kept it. Without the cloud the moon has nothing to hang on. Astrophotographers would have waited for the cloud to pass. I am not one, and…

Crescent moon hanging in a dark starry sky above a thin band of cloud

The Opening

A cave on the coast with one hole in the roof, and the twenty minutes a day when the sun comes through it. I lay on the sand at the bottom and photographed the sky. The picture is the shape…

Looking up through a dark rock opening to a bright sky

Winter Moon

January, minus eight, and the sky so clear the moon had edges. I took the long lens up to the roof, balanced it on the parapet and photographed the same crescent for an hour while it climbed. A moon is…

Crescent moon in a black night sky