French landscape astrophotographer and astronomy journalist Laurent Laveder created a fun series of ‘moon’ images with a twist. Using a few simple props and the human form he’s transformed the moon into all manner of objects. He’s also pulled together a small book – Moon Games – featuring some of the images and some poetry (it’s in French).
See the full gallery of images here (via Bored Panda).
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34 Responses to “Moon Games” - Add Yours
February 28th, 2012 at 1:55 am
Those are awesome.
February 28th, 2012 at 2:00 am
Fun pictures! Reminds me of a long lost post where I was trying to fit a few construction rods with the moon but did not manage to quite.
http://blogs.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/2009/11/not-a-good-fit.html
February 28th, 2012 at 2:42 am
I had to stand in the middle of the road to get this one. It still was not the perfect angle but the best I could do without getting mown down.
http://wildlifeencounters.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Italy-at-Night/G0000vwYVzqJ0uSE/I0000RseNBbX2gFc
February 28th, 2012 at 3:05 am
Very creative shots and a lot of fun to do I’m sure. I haven’t had much success with photographing the moon though, let alone, trying to play games with it!
February 28th, 2012 at 3:26 am
everytime there is article
today we have fun!
creativity plays a role in all the pictures with the moon!
http://raghavendra-mobilephotography.blogspot.com/2010/08/sun-rise-with-rainy-clouds.html
February 28th, 2012 at 3:47 am
Not the most interesting but I shot this one a few weeks back. Has some minor clipping issues on the right side and I don’t quite have a large enough focal length to get better detail but oh well.
http://500px.com/photo/5044861
February 28th, 2012 at 4:09 am
How fun is this? The painter is my favorite one! Thanks for sharing. I love seeing the neat ideas that people come up with. When you photograph people for a living, it’s way too easy to get into a rut of doing the same things over and over.
February 28th, 2012 at 4:47 am
Awesome images. Great imagination.
February 28th, 2012 at 5:00 am
lol – Loving this.
February 28th, 2012 at 5:52 am
Very creative images! So cool! Thanks for posting.
February 28th, 2012 at 7:29 am
Not to be the Debby Downer of this thread, but this seems pretty good…for an amateur. Take the picture with the girl and the clock hands for example. Cool idea, but poor execution. When the girl and hands are tack sharp but the moon is out of focus, you really have to push yourself to fall for the illusion. Get the moon in focus with the rest of the picture and it immediately has the potential to grab your eye. Without it, it’s just…”meh.”
February 28th, 2012 at 9:28 am
Jeff – you’re right, some of the pics have some focusing issues when you look at larger sized images – in fact if you go over to the full gallery you can see the photographer is obviously playing with different focus points with some pics done so that the moon is in focus and some that the silhouette is in focus. Not all are perfect but it was a fun project that I thought worth sharing in the hope of inspiring others.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:58 am
Cool series of photos!
February 28th, 2012 at 10:24 am
A bit cliche but fun, no doubt about it!
February 28th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Cool shots! I think that we need a very hight zoom lens to take these kind of pictures. The moon never looks bigger than a dot with my P&S
February 28th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Love it!
February 28th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Here are a couple of moon shots taken at different times. Moon in the first one is kind of blown out, but i think it’s kinda adds to the picture.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78829732@N00/6791259880/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78829732@N00/6937364631/in/photostream
February 29th, 2012 at 1:18 am
very cool pics…they might not be professionally perfect, but this amateur enjoyed them.
February 29th, 2012 at 5:26 am
Very clever photo series, I do not usually like photography gimmicks like this, but the creativity trumps gimmick.
March 1st, 2012 at 5:24 am
My wife and I take pictures like this when the opportunity arises. We have a great one of her ‘High Fiving’ a statue of King Kahmehameha in Hawaii.
They are hard to line up some times and you did a fantastic job with these!
March 1st, 2012 at 11:41 am
Creative! I like the one with the pair of scissors.
March 1st, 2012 at 11:49 am
My favourite moon shot. I was taking a walk with my ex when I saw this line-up!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chandira/4742361983/
It was right after an eclipse, too, which sadly I missed, it wasn’t visible after moon-rise.
March 1st, 2012 at 11:50 am
I also really like this one, check out the crescent moon bottom left! This was 4th July fireworks from Seattle’s Lake Union.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chandira/5906410286/
March 2nd, 2012 at 2:58 am
Wonderfully creative collection.
March 2nd, 2012 at 2:59 am
Those are seriously amazing!! What a gorgeous moon toor! I love them all!!
March 2nd, 2012 at 5:02 am
Over 150 stills of the moon put together, 300mm lens on a Canon DSLR. I took these from my backyard:
http://youtu.be/X-PupmTBwCg
March 2nd, 2012 at 6:51 am
Those are just awesome!
March 2nd, 2012 at 8:36 am
Truly amazing photo tour.
The best about this pictures is the angle. Moon is not too high. Need to find a mountain or a hillto get this angle. Am I right ?
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Oh wow, I love this series!
March 2nd, 2012 at 11:12 pm
I’m the photographer who took this series. Thank you all for your comments.
Lokesh, you’re true. I’m on a beach and the character aligned with the Moon is atop a sand dune, a few meter higher. So, we can catch the Moon when it is only a few degrees above the horizon. and goind down ofr up the beach, I’m able to change the apparent altitude of the Moon.
Thanks again. Regards
March 3rd, 2012 at 11:15 am
What a great and fun thing to do. I’ll have to find a spot where I can clearly see the moon on a rise as well – would love to have a go at that myself someday…. or should I say some night!
March 3rd, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Fantastic Idea’s.
Thank you very much for sharing !!!
March 6th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
very nice this session
March 6th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
What fabulous composition and great capture. One of those “wish I had shot” series of photographs. Thanks for sharing. Nikhil
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