PicsArt Monthly September 2014 | Page 90

FEATURE : Photo FULL MOON ON A MANHATTAN ONE WAY STREET Recently, the world celebrated the 45th anniversary of the moon landing, when the crew of the Apollo 11 spaceship took man’s first steps on lunar soil. User Jaabir Ahmed (@jaabircan) doesn’t own a spaceship, so he went looking for the moon in an unlikely place and found it, present on a one way street in Manhattan. @jaabircan To capture his photo, Jaabir would literally need the stars to align. The event he waited for, or perhaps lucked 90| PicsArt Monthly into, is a bi-annual event that takes place near the Summer Solstice known as Manhattanhenge, when you can look down any of the East-West streets of Manhattan and see the setting sun nesting between two lanes of milehigh skyscrapers. It was a strange convergence of events for Jaabir, the Summer Solstice, Manhattanhenge, a full moon in the sky, and a gorgeous evening on the week of the moon landing anniversary.