It's bloody cold tonight though.

I've decided to make a real effort to use bits of the camera I usually leave to the point and press function. There's this full moon and it's not going anywhere for a while and I could try doing things with exposures and oh well all that stuff you can do if you have time to read the manual before the subject runs away. Also I found my tripod the other day. I did moons yesterday without any of these things and the result was quite nice...but not quite right.
Fine. Ok. It seems auto does the job better than I can.
Although the moon shows no signs of running away, there are clouds encroaching on my photo shoot. And it's too cold for the batteries. I have to kep running inside to warm the batteries and check the manual. And to read the little pictures on the bit that you use to choose photography modes. And I have to take my glasses off to see the screen and put them back on to find the moon...well maybe that's a slight exaggeration). Each time I come in or go out the dog becomes convinced that this time he's coming too (fat chance...he'd only run off and raid someone's compost heap and then give me back his findings tomorrow). So while I'm pointing and pressing and swivelling things there's this disembodied dog poking out of the cat flap (unfortunately in deep shadow).
It's all part of the learning curve. And life's rich thingie. er, tapestry.