Playing with the Moon
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I love this photo.
On March 9 I wrote: I wish I knew its origin so I could give it proper attribution and link to the right place on the Web for it. But that's true for most of the photos I find on Facebook.
On May 5, Louise responded (below): Adam, it is by amateur astronomer, now photographer Laurent Laveder http://www.laurentlaveder.com/
With that information I found this NPR story about this photo set.
Specifically, it's a pet project called Moon Games.
Says Claire O'Neill of NPR:
The charm of the captions is somewhat lost in translation, but they are playful like a children's book; the whole thing actually reminds me of The Little Prince, who lived on an asteroid moon.
I added this photo to my Posterous page, The 12 Laws of Karma.
Found on Imgur, too.
The Posterous page is dead, but I did find a Sun Basketball Swoosh:
Adam, it is by amateur astronomer, now photographer Laurent Laveder http://www.laurentlaveder.com/ .. and yes, I thoroughly agree with you there re proper attribution ... (being a photographer myself :)) ... we are working on a fix for that with our new start up :)
Louise, THANK YOU!
That was really eating at me.
I look forward to your startup's fix.
I shared this photo on Facebook last night.
Since then it has gotten 600 likes and 600 shares.
Wow.
I wish I could find more photos that have that kind of love!!
wow ! ... I love to hear that the artists are geting their due credit :) Funny actually - I gained 20 or so new followers last night- all of which were photographers ! and I could not figure out why ... :)
I'm guessing sharing that photo is why.
So now the question is how can I find more amazing photos like that one?
yep - sure was. have you tried 500PX ? http://500px.com/ lots of BIG moon pics on there at the mo http://500px.com/photo/7341910
That is a great image, and I had never seen 500px before.
Right now my image places to peruse are Imgur and Bored Panda: http://pandawhale.com/convo/1118/creative-dad-takes-crazy-photos-of-daughters-via-bored-panda
There are many more variations on this theme, among them:
Holding up the moon: http://pandawhale.com/convo/5054/holding-up-the-moon
Moon in my coffee: http://pandawhale.com/convo/1818/moon-in-my-coffee
Moon over Sequoia National Park is spectacular.
What is Many Moons about?
i can't BELIEVE this book was re-illustrated after the fabulous marc simont did the first one! sacrilege!
Re illustration is rare, right?
SUPER rare.
but i was actually wrong: marc simont did the re-illustration! i thought he did it first, but louis slobodkin was the original illustrator and winner of the caldecott medal, which is like an oscar for illustration. weird to re-illustrate a caldecott winner. really weird. might be the only time it has ever happened.
Yeah, no one ever successfully remade an Oscar winner, too.
8:21 PM Mar 09 2012