Golden Gate Moonlit Night Countdown Timer

The Golden Gate at night, under a full moon, with the fog coming in low over the water and the headlights running along the deck like a line of molten metal, is the kind of picture that makes people accuse you of cheating. I promise I did not. I was on the Marin headlands on the north side, up on a ridge, with a tripod and a long lens and about four layers of clothing, and the moon was doing the thing it does here, hanging over the strait like a lamp somebody forgot to turn off. The fog was sitting on the water and the lights of the bridge lit it from below so the whole underside of the fog bank turned orange. That is the part you cannot plan. You go out, you set up, and then the weather decides whether you get the picture. That night it said yes. The suspension cables caught the moonlight and disappeared into the fog at the far tower, and the city beyond was just a scatter of dots on the dark. I stayed until the moon moved out of frame.