A cardboard box with a pinhole in one end and a sheet of vellum on the backside, so that the sun fluttering among the trees is projected onto it. This moving image edit is derived from about 4 or 5 takes on the day venus was supposed to cross the sun's path. As it turned out I got the day wrong, but it wouldn't have mattered as the image that formed on the vellum was so soft and wispish and the trees were in the way that there was no chance whatsoever venus could be seen passing by. The footage (a misnomer) was taken (questionable term, too) with an iPod, which I stuck into a lump of plasticine which I stuck on a box or chair or something. It was very crude in its set up but it turned out better than what I attempted the next day with a much more expensive camera borrowed from the equipment room.
This pic is of the full moon in West Cork last night taken with an iPod. It was bright enough to register pretty well. Visible are the vines hanging down and the hill beyond.
and the pond at the bottom of the garden during daylight hours....
..............wherein the moon sleeps....
