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Reaching for the Moon in a Creative Portrait

April 15, 2020

By Jacqueline Tobin

© Ap-Art Photography

Wedding and fine-art photographer Pete of Ap-Art Photography in Kent, England, loves to wander the wondrous local landscapes with his young son, Oliver. It’s no mystery why, after taking him for long walks along the coast as he told him about cloud formations and outerspace, Oliver’s first word was “moon.”

One day, wandering around with his photographer friend Pav, they wound up in a park filled with cratered rabbit warrens, “and although the moon was already pretty high,” Pete explains, “we were able to go on the ridge with the camera being placed deep in the hole [of a warren] to achieve the angle.”

They tried a few frames of Pete holding up Oliver as he “grabbed” the moon, but they agreed that the better ones were of Pete running and jumping to grab the moon while Oliver looked on with a stick in his hand.

(Shot on an old Pentax K10 atop a tripod with a 135mm lens at 1/500 sec. and ISO 200.)

photographer reaching for the moon at dusk

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