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One guy fooling around with the Moon

Explore stunning rising Moon pictures by creative French photographer Laurent Laveder, showcasing whimsical scenes with unique perspectives.

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There's a series of pictures going around the web right now showing the rising Moon in the background, and people whimsically doing things to it in the foreground. It's hard to explain, so here is a picture literally worth 28 words:

I love this series of photos, and I've seen people plug it on Twitter, Google+, and I've gotten an email or two about it as well. The thing is, the photographer who took these pictures isn't getting any attribution in the copies I've seen (like, for example, on FAILblog; I've sent them a note about it [UPDATE: they've added a link to Laurent's page. Yay!]). The cool thing is, I know who took these images: the amazingly creative French photographer Laurent Laveder. I knew it was him right away, because his photo of a man "painting" the Moon during a lunar eclipse took the ninth slot in my Top ...

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