Byron Bay photographer Dylan O’Donnell took this stunning photo of the International Space Station passing the moon on Tuesday. Photo Contributed
The media has called it the holy grail of astro-photography. The Cool Stuff of the week is Dylan O’ Donnell’s fantastic photograph of the full moon with the incredible capture of the space station on the top right.
The BYRON Bay (Australia) photographer who captured the shot on Tuesday with International Space Station passing over the moon said this was his second attempt to take the stunning shot.
“I’ve only tried once before and I completely botched it, it looked like a blur,” he said.
“The International Space Station ISS passes through the sky semi regularly, but for it to line up like it did with an almost full moon is quite rare.
“Some people go chasing around the world to try to line it up but I just waited from my home and it was about 12 months from the last time it lined up that way for me.”
A little creative genius lives with me and is sometimes called my younger son, Chris. He is over one 190 cm tall so he is not that little, but this 16-year-old always comes up with amazing ideas. One of his discoveries was how to magnify or shoot micro pictures with his iPhone using a recycled attachment from an old torch. Here are a couple of images Chris was excited to share with me for their artistic value – he deliberately softened the lines.
Chris Harris Picture. Bee. May 25, 2015
When I asked him what camera he had used to take the pictures, he showed me his phone and explained, he took apart an old torch and stuck a glass lens from the old torch on his iPhone camera lens to take the super micro images. I was so excited, we went everywhere in the garden to take more pictures from deep inside centre of petals to the eye-balls of family members so we could see the colour spectrums. It is quite incredible. The bee pictures are two of Chris’s images.
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