A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside. Freelance photographer Matt Bigwood wanted to convey the movement of stars when he photographed the night sky over Gloucestershire. Using long exposures, Matt shot the same location multiple times, before layering the images on top of each other to create the star trails in the sky. The 46-year-old, of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, says: “My aim is just to produce eye-catching pictures that convey maybe an hour or more movement into one image.
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A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
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GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
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A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
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At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
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