Lauren Beehan

@laurenbeehan

Ireland. News/Media. Moon fan. Happily lurking in Linguistics Bluesky. Audience Editor at the Irish Independent. Views here are my own, and usually of the moon. (She/her)

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Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· 6d

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Screengrab reading: On Wednesday, millions of people around the world were joined in the same endeavour to see the same spectacle at the same time.

Whether we rejoiced in seeing it or shared in the frustration of an ill-timed cloud, an event like this reminds us of our connection to the universe and to each other – and these days, that can only be a good thing.

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· 6d

Screengrab reading 'During lockdown, I found comfort in the fact that everyone, isolated, was seeing the same sky. Friends I couldn’t see in person messaged me whenever they saw a good moon and it brought us together.

I felt the same when Ireland got a surprise aurora in May 2024, and WhatsApp groups across the country lit up at 11pm, with everyone sharing photos and urging friends to look at the sky.'

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· 7d

Sometimes the cloud does stay away, and your DIY camera lens filter works! Tonight's eclipse in Dublin! #eclipse #solareclipse

The sun through a filter as the eclipse started, looking like a reddish orange disk with a black bite taken out of the right hand side

The sun through a filter during the eclipse, looking like a red crescent with the points to the right

The sun through a filter at the peak of the eclipse in Ireland, looking like a tiny sliver of a red crescent with the points facing down

The sun through a filter during the eclipse, looking like a thick orange red crescent with the points facing left

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· 28d

We also took a second 'harder' colour each - mine was blue, but with the added rule that I couldn't take pics of just the sea or just the sky (we were in a seaside town).

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· 28d

I did a colour hunt photo challenge with some friends this week & it was really fun. Makes you look at the landscape differently! I had green as my main colour, and I know this isn't the aesthetic picture platform, but look how nicely it turned out:

A grid of images of green things including: an abandoned green baseball cap on a wall, a set of green chairs around a table outside a cafe, two green postboxes in front of some trees, a green cherub on a fountain with water pouring from beneath, a green front door with Victorian arch window, some unripened horse chestnuts hanging from the tree, the green man light lit up on a pedestrian crossing, a green bicycle tied up at a bike rack, and a fire exit sign

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Jun 25

It should not be 24C when I'm out taking moon pics in Dublin at 10pm...

A zoomed in pic of tonight's waxing gibbous moon (at about 85pc full) against a black sky. Some craters are visible along the edge where it fades into shadow

A less zoomed in pic of tonight's waxing gibbous moon (at about 85pc full) against a black sky

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Apr 19

Earthshine at moonset. (A very hastily taken photo as I happened to look out just before it dropped out of sight.)

A photo of the crescent moon in a dark sky, setting low over buildings. The crescent is very bright/over-exposed which means the rest of the moon's face can be seen as an earthshine shadow completing the circle.

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Apr 1

She's even clearer now. Lots of talk about the moon tonight with Artemis obv - so don't forget to go out and look at the full moon too! 🌕

A zoomed-in detailed pic of the full moon bright against a black sky

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Apr 1

Six years ago, I took a photo of the Easter full moon and posted it saying "Maybe this will be hobby I rekindle in lockdown..." Now it's this year's Easter moon and I have a real camera and 1000+ moon pics and an 'intro to photography' course and moon earrings and 7 different moon ornaments and...

Tonight's yellow full moon rising against a blue sky, seen between two lots of electricity cables with light cloud drifting across it

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Mar 30

Literally the fourth post I saw after opening this app.

The meme of a dog at a PC saying "What a lovely day on the inter- Good lord"

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

Easily amused in Belfast

Me sitting beside a speech bubble that says "Hello, I'm a talking fish!"

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

Tasty

A bag of Swedish jellies called Salt Skum

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

Aka a career in media

A sign in Estonian and English directing to "Endless Coffee Drinking"

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

Always

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

These were everywhere in Tallinn when I was there. Bit unnerving

Me, named Lauren, standing looking suspicious beside a lampost decked out in signs that say "LAURÈN LAURÈN LAURÈN etc" fifteen times

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

A sign in the same shop as above (Red Books in Wexford)

A picture of a tree made of books with a sign in the style of cigarette box warnings saying "Reading can seriously damage your ignorance"

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

This felt like a trap specifically to get me. (It worked)

A red sign with "BOOKS" handwritten on it, stuck over a wheelie bin and pointing towards a low wall

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

Seen at Lost Evenings in Edinburgh. Valid.

A poster that sats "INTROVERTS: WE'RE HERE WE'RE UNCOMFORTABLE AND WE..." and then someone has stuck a label over the rest saying "don't want to go home but we are stressed and we need an adult"

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

When you log into Bluesky

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

What an honour to visit. In fairness, Gougane Barra's a great toilet setting

A brass sign on the wall of a thatched outhouse saying "Ireland's Top Toilet Award"

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

That year before my black belt grading in Taekwon-do when sparring was not going well

Me standing under a sign saying Low Defences

Lauren Beehan@laurenbeehan· Feb 27

What intrigued me about this Estonian bus sign was that all the dangerous items are there once, but fish are there three times. ("No really, do not bring fish on this bus")