There are about a million reasons I tend to not go out at night. Feeling tired after work, just having “one” too many beers or just general lethargy. Tonight, the weather is absolutely awful - the wind will literally take your breath away, but Scooby just wouldn’t chill out, so Yve and I wrapped up and headed out for a trudge in the dark.
Grabbing the camera on the way out of the door was a last minute decision, I certainly didn’t expect to get any images, but on the walk I found a few bollards where I could anchor the camera for the 30 or so seconds needed to get any kind of exposure at all.
I love the anticipation with viewing a night exposure for the first time. Waiting around for what seems like an eternity trying to hold the camera still whilst the wind and rain do their best to introduce extreme camera shake. When you finally get to look at the LCD it could be completely black, or completely blurred, but just sometimes an image appears that just defies reality - the lights of a distant town illuminating the clouds and fantastic colours that just appear from nowhere.
Yve still thinks I’m mad though…