In Camera ... Postcard AG30

The new postcards are proving to be very popular and I thought I would go through the circumstances in which each image was captured.
This picture was taken just before sunrise in August 2005, not long after the sculptures were placed. I had been waiting for a full moon which, at this time of the year, sets in the north west. The weather conditions had been very settled and I knew that I would have to get up early the following morning for this picture with the setting moon and the pink glow of dawn. The tide was also low which helped show the vast expanse of beach containing several of the figures.
My planning paid off with this mystical image in which the sky is suffused with the glow of the rising sun behind me, the full moon just at the edge of the earth's penumbra and the beach still in the shadow of the earth as the iron men gaze forever westward.
The camera was on a tripod for this shot which was exposed for around half a second in the pre dawn light.