The game itself was one that started filled with hope, Phoenix needing only three points from the remaining fixtures to secure the League title. Slough aren't a team to be taken lightly though, and they didn't want to be the team that paved the way for the Phoenix to get to within a point of the trophy. The Jets came out hard, pressuring Phoenix on every play, and with both teams pushing for the points the game saw 10 goals. The game had plenty of highs and lows, the look on Curtis Huppe's face after a goal being one of them!
Unfortunately the split of goals was 4-6 in the favour of the Jets, the last one being an empty netter that our defence just couldn't stop. It was this moment that gave me the shot that, for me, summed up the evening:
More photos from the game can be seen on my Flickr page here: Phoenix v Jets photo album
Saturday night saw the Phoenix pick up two of the three necessary points down in Milton Keynes, but it also saw the occurrence of the 'Supermoon' (a term that most scientists hate but hey, it's what people know it as). This is when the orbit of the moon is at its closest to the earth (at its perigree) and it coincides with a full moon. The net effect is that the moon appears larger in the skies, particularly at sunset. Alas, sunset in Stoke On Trent was a rather cloudy affair, but once the skies cleared, I was able to head just a few metres up the street and shoot between the houses to get this shot:
I've always had a thing with shooting the moon, so a chance to shoot the moon on a clear night when it's larger in the sky than usual (albeit not by much) was too good to miss!
Moon shots album on Flickr
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