Owen's teacher sent home a note about a contest being hosted by the Fernbank Science Center and Planetarium. The children were encouraged to photograph the moon in the early evening sky and try to take a creative shot like balancing the moon on your head or something similar. Not surprising, considering his interest in all things planetary, Owen REALLY wanted to stay up and try to photograph the moon. I'll admit that he might have been slightly motivated by the fact that the paper indicated "the best 10 photographs will win a prize."
After brainstorming different approaches, he settled on trying to catch the moon in a cup and trying to pinch it betweeen chopsticks. He was very clear on the fact that he had to take the picture completely on his own. While OUR camera undoubtedly captured a better and closer shot, he couldn't handle it totally by himself. So, he switched to his own digital camera and directed the shots to his liking.
"Higher, mommy. No, lower. Ok, now open the chopsticks more. Wait! Don't move! Now, move closer to me..."
Here is the resulting image. 
Well, whaddya know. We got an email on Monday from the Science Museum with the following message:
"Thanks so much, Owen! No one else in our contest thought of using chopsticks on the Moon, and your photo is absolutely wonderful! Congratulations on winning a Lady in the Moon night light as a thank-you gift. Great work!"
He was thrilled, to say the least...very proud of himself. And though the nightlight is certainly NOT the Lego set he was convinced they would hand out, I'm sure he'll appreciate it nonetheless.
2 comments:
Really cool idea for the pic.
And keep up the blogging Angie
Congratulations, Owen! It's beautiful! One of my colleagues has her students follow the moon throughout the fall semester... I am going to forward this to her so she can see what you've done.
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