Lumos

The thing with long exposures is that the process is, in a sense, the "inverse" of street photography. Where in street photography you are admonished to capture "the decisive moment", long exposures, as the name implies, throws spur-of-the-moment decisiveness to the winds and puts your prepared decisions at the mercy of sheer luck. A lot of things can lay waste to the long exposures of even the most-prepared photographers. Winds blew a bit stronger than your tripod can withstand? Clouds roll past your dreamy starscape? Tough luck, kid. Try again.

But that is not to say that happy accidents don't happen at all. Like this shot of Venus rising at Big Handy's Grounds. As the guy with a headlight strolled across my shot, I cursed in my head, thinking there goes twenty seconds down the drain. But in the end, the shot turned out to be something out-of-ordinary, not ruined at all.