Many of us use our phones as cameras.
While it may or may not be your primary camera, you have to admit that it’s a convenient one. Our phones can be easily stuffed into our pockets while an actual camera may not be. That alone makes it quite a tool.
Sometimes we snap photos that capture very special moments. We might not even know it at the time but for one woman, she had a feeling that her photo was special.
Sarah Hodges from Bolton, a town in England, really enjoys looking at the moon. But instead of using an expensive camera to capture her images, she turns to her Samsung S9.
What Hodges captured on her phone would not just be the talk of the town, but it would get people from all over the world discussing her images.
Between February 8th and 9th, a strong storm named Ciara, or Sabine in certain parts of Europe, swept through Ireland and other parts of the United Kingdom. Shortly after, it headed to the mainland of Europe.
Hodges just so happened to capture the sky after the storm passed. The photos show a vivid moon encompassed by dark clouds. To many, it looked like an actual eye – the eye of the storm.
“I took the pictures last Tuesday 11 Feb 2020, between 9.34 pm and 9.39 pm, just from my bedroom window at my home address. I am obsessed with the moon, sunset, sunrise, and the sea. I just used my Samsung S9.”
Hodges knows that she was fortunate to capture such a unique photo of the sky.
“I know I got lucky, people spend thousands on cameras to get the perfect shot. I feel overwhelmed and proud, as it’s a once in a lifetime shot… which I do understand.”
She shared the photos on her Facebook page where it received a lot of attention. It has amassed over 2,000 likes and has been shared over 35,000 times. It easily became a viral hit.
“I took the pictures manually without any shutter settings, so I was incredibly lucky to get the shot.”
Many users were intrigued by the photos and shared their thoughts on what they thought it meant.
“That is crazy it looks just like an eye so I’m sure it’s Jesus looking down on earth. Wow.”
“Just because we see something that we can relate to, doesn’t mean it has purpose. Our brain is trained to identify things. So we see an eye.”
“Looks like it would make a badass album cover to be honest.”
Though users had a lot of differentiating personal opinions to share about the photos, one thing is for certain, the storm definitely left its mark in places other than the sky.
With 80mph winds and a lot of rain, it unveiled an old footprint of a dinosaur on the Isle of Wight. The dinosaur is believed to have roamed the earth over 130 million years ago.
Theo Vickers of Wight Coast Fossils shared just how the weather can play a role in uncovering the earth’s long history.
“All this weather is revealing traces of vanished worlds along our coastline. This is a really fascinating example of how events like Storm Ciara continue to expose traces of ancient environments around our geologically unique coastline, often in plain sight.”
Though the storm left behind a lot of damage, oddly enough, it’s left behind traces of beauty as well.
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