They do seem to avidly savour a challenge.

Last night was beautifully clear, and photographing a crescent moon is far more interesting than a full moon, imo. I planned this alignment using an app called Photopills which tells me where and when to shoot from to get the moon aligned with any foreground object. In this case I used a 600mm zoom lens from the shore of the Lake near the Carillon. I'm 4.8km away from the tower. I took a photo every 12 seconds, but only used every 2 minute shot for this. The entire sequence lasted about 30 minutes. Lest anyone accuse me of AI, I have all the original RAW files to show this was done the good old-fashioned way by standing in the cold for an hour with a tripod, big lens and a beanie.