The morning after the night before.
Following on from my excursion to photograph the sun setting over a billowing bank of fog in the Vale of Clwyd on the evening of Easter Sunday 2015, 4.30am on the morning of Easter Monday found me overlooking the same panorama.
I was interested to see if the fog bank had remained overnight, and with a full moon setting in the west there was potential for another foggy time lapse video.
When I got to my chosen vantage point on the slopes of my local hill, Moel Famau, I saw that there were still some vestiges of the original fog bank swirling around in the Vale below me, looking very appealing with the lights of Ruthin shining through the tendrils of mist.
What really appealed was that, if I moved myself a few hundred metres further up the side of Moel Famau I was positioned so that the moon would set on a diagonal path that would take it from left to right over Ruthin itself.
So that's what I did, spending over two hours rooted to the spot listening to the owls hooting, watching and photographing as the mist moved back towards the coast, the moon dropped towards the horizon and the sky changed from deep blue, through the mauve of the earth shadow to the pale azure of sunrise.
I'm sure glad I overcame the temptation to stay in bed!
Filename - ruthin moonset timelapse 01.mp4
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - From 15 to 1/25 seconds, f4 to f11, ISO100
Capture interval - 15 secs
Location - Ruthin, North Wales
This clip - HD720p
Clip duration - 19 seconds
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