Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow........

Last night, for once, this part of Scotland had clear skies to see something amazing in the heavens.

What caught my eye was how brightly all the stars were shining without the competition of our moon.

It felt a very ancient and primeval thing to be out in the dark looking up at Mother Earth snuffing out the light of her own cold little child.

I put the camera on the bulb setting and took some shots with a 300mm lens, but it was hard trying to make sure there was no movement with my family thundering around, so the pix are far from perfect, but here are three of a sequence. There's a slight red hue in the full eclipse, but it was a muddy sort of red.