For anyone who follows my blog will be aware that my favourite form of photography is landscape photography, but my other favourite is night photography. I'm really wanting to get some stunning milkyway shots and I thought last night would be the ideal evening for it.
The milkyway core is now visible at a more respectable time, in the northern hemisphere it's now around midnight, rather than the very early hours of the morning.
I still had to battle the tablets I'd taken as they tend to knock me out, but as 12am approached, the sky still looked clear, there'd not been a cloud up until this time.
I swapped my lenses over in the house, rather than fumble around in the dark at the bottom of the garden, I put on my samyang 14mm f2.8 lens, got my tripod out the boot of the car and headed down the garden.
I looked up and to where I wanted to shoot, and saw it, a massive blanket of cloud quickly rolling in straight over where I was, I'm thinking to myself, just my bloody luck, it reminded me of a timelapse I was recording, as I wanted to get the moon moving across the sky, and all I got was a point of where clouds started to form and completely covered the moon.
I never seem to have any luck with the weather lol.
Sadly, I class last night as a failure, I'm not gonna bother staying up tonight, as I'm off to a cold war bunker tomorrow morning.
I know we can't all have perfect shots, but I do strive for that perfection, or at least something I can say "I can't believe I've shot that!".
All pictures in this post shot using a Sony A7iii camera at iso 800 / 20 sec exposure at F/2.8. If you look at the last shot, I couldn't see the field as it was really dark at the top of the garden, it always impresses me with what a camera can pick up.
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All the best :-)