Richard Costin‘s current most valuable bit of kit is quite probably a jar of peanut butter if his recent photographs of badgers are anything to go by. Setting up shot at night and luring the elusive animals to specific locations he is then able to snap shots under moonlight with careful use of flash to create some stunning images.

For anyone who missed this morning’s London Metro paper article, it’s worth a look, otherwise there are a variety of shots on Richard‘s website. Made my morning read that little bit cheerier amid all the miserable headline news anyway: