Golden Cross

This has to be one of the most challenging images I have taken, the idea of photographing the illuminated church with its lit cross beneath the stars sounds simple, but is far from it!!! Balancing the illuminated cross and dark skies is tricky and needed several exposures to balance. All while thinking on your feet at 1 degree celcius on a frosty spring night!! My bag was well and truly frozen when I started to pack away at 0330.

Combining and processing the images then involved much more photoshop than I usually want to experience!!!

But I think the final effort is well worth it, and is becoming a favourite the more I look at it.