The Moon
This photograph is evocative of the iconic Earthrise, but it’s a redux of that photograph: Instead of Earth rising over an astronaut on the Moon, it’s Venus behind the Moon, taken by a viewer on Earth in June 2020. Taken in Forges-les-Bains, France, the photo is a different look at the familiar sight of the lunar surface, one that removes Earth from the conversation entirely.
“This is how the Solar System might look to a space traveller,” said competition judge László Francsics, an astrophotographer and the Chairman of the Hungarian Astrophotographers’ Association, in a Royal Observatory Greenwich release. “Cosmic distance and celestial objects can be seen from a new perspective in one single image.” Indeed, it’s the sort of photograph that makes you say “wait, what?” as your mind wraps around where the photographer was and exactly what’s captured in the picture.
