So this is what it looks like when your DSLR camera sensor is covered in dust and shit. See those bits against the clouds? It’s not on your screen, do not adjust your sets. It’s inside my camera and ruined all my night shots. I feel so bloody annoyed. I discovered this after spending a couple of hours last night freezing my arse off clambering around on the roof, taking 8-minute exposure shots of the moon and clouds and city lights. I had a pretty great time and it was going so well: look at all that light coming off the crazy moon, and the clouds all ethereal and gossamer and shit and the saturated colours and I even got a couple of light trails. Gah. I have better shots at 10-12 minutes and more tightly zoomed, but that doesn’t matter because the crap inside my machine ruined them (you see it so clearly in this week’s set because for long exposures you tend to close up the aperture as far as it will go and focus the lens to inifinty and then SCIENCE!) and well, there you go. I’ve been showing y’all my best photographs and think it’s only fair I share some disasters too. Sooo, first thing I’m doing this Saturday is getting my sensor professionally cleaned.

There will be more beautiful nights for doing this and I’ll be up there again soon, but farking hell, I mourn for my poor, lovely nighttime photos. Arses and buggrit. BUGGRIT.