Nobby's Head Lighthouse during a stormy night in Newcastle, Australia. Five minutes later we met a fisherman who had just caught a bronze whaler shark - which are known to attack humans.

A last-minute decision to open the camera's shutter for an hour whilst stopping off for the night along Australia's Great Ocean Road. The sensor was filthy and the condensation was taking over the lens, but it was fun trying to get it right. We lived in this van for almost six months.

Fraser Island off the east coast of Australia. Whilst the snakes slithered past nearby and the dingoes howled for another Danish girl to bite (which really did happen a few nights before this picture was taken), I found myself lying in the grass and using the natural light from a nearby toilet cubicle to light-up this tree.

A rare week of beautifully clear skies and warm weather in England gave me the chance to head up to the Crich Memorial in Derbyshire to attempt another one-hour exposure. The beacon at the top worked well, and I was aided by the headlights of several cars passing by on the road below. At first I was gutted, thinking they'd ruin the picture. But the tower is lit up nicely thanks to them. 

Taken late one night on New Zealand's South Island whilst sleeping in a rental car. Having left my battery charger behind back in Auckland, I only had a few minutes of battery-life left to get this picture right. It was the last attempt before it died and the shutter closed for good.

This was my first attempt at a digital startrail picture and took place at Monsal Dale viaduct in Derbyshire. Armed with a thermos of coffee, marshmallows and a packet of crisps, we sat under a blanket late in to the night and listened to the owls, bats and other nocturnal hunters going about their business.