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Water on the moon

In a stop-action shot of water dripping from a faucet into a blue cup of water, motion is frozen by a flash that illuminates an image of the moon. The water drops act as lenses that bring the moon into focus, morphing from a cylindrical lens at the top to a spherical lens at the bottom.

[OPN 2024 Photo Contest Editors’ Choice]
 

—Fredrik Fatemi, VA, USA