Serendipitously Moonstruck

 There was a big full Moon recently, hanging low and large.  A surprisingly bright star was surprisingly close by  --so close!  The Stellarium app gave a correction: that "star" was planet Jupiter.   (That's often the case with the night sky : the brightest stars wind up being planets.)  The Moon is quite hard to photograph clearly and with good detail, but Lily Reid did beautifully. 

Lily's Moon pictures are also remarkable because they show the last "blue supermoon" (or "super blue Moon" if you prefer) we'll see until 2037  --14 years away.  (Super blue Moons run on a 14-year cycle.)  Art class students at NCHS recently made hand-drawn digital art picturing space stations with a distant moon.  It looked like a moon theme was launching itself. 

A 2022 photography class image by the talented Tiera *Moon* came to mind.  While not exactly moon-related, a Danica McGeehan "meteor" photoimage would go well with the Lily Reid "dinosaur" photoimage. 

Mary Kattmann sent in an original comic strip titled "Man in The Moon.

And Naomi Bartley sent in a poem (and a hand-drawn digital illustration for it) that dealt with the heavens.  Hello, Moon/space/-ish theme.  

   

To be considered for publication in (Nelson) exPRESSion, please e-mail your original art, poems, photos, haiku, comics, creative writing, et cetera to the Nelson County High School (VA) art teacher, Mr. Ward, and put “publish me” in the subject line.   

(by NCHS Art Dept)